[RFC PATCH 0/3] usb: musb: add new phy driver

This series adds a new usb2 phy driver. The device for which is created by the ocp2scp driver. This also uses control module driver. This series converts twl6030 as a comparator driver (previously it was also the phy driver) and makes use of ...

Message posted on the May 30th, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET

[RFC PATCH 1/6] Introduce acpi_match_device_id().

From 72df5d1f51fb27a4ba7f70a3b07df759d32b8288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:11:55 +0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/6] Introduce acpi_match_device_id(). This API is used to check if a ...

Message posted on the September 28th, 2012 - 3:40 AM ET

[RFC PATCH] Utilize the PCI API in the AGP framework.

Attached is a set of RFC patches that make it possible for AGP graphic drivers to work under Xen. The major problem that Linux kernel has when running under Xen is that the usage of "virt_to_phys(x) >> PAGE_SIZE" to get the DMA ...

Message posted on the December 6th, 2010 - 6:30 PM ET

[RFC][PATCH v6 00/19] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from guest virtio-net driver. The idea is simple, just ...

Message posted on the May 21st, 2010 - 5:30 AM ET

[RFC][PATCH v5 00/19] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from guest virtio-net driver. The idea is simple, just ...

Message posted on the May 7th, 2010 - 5:30 AM ET

[RFC][PATCH 0/12] KVM, x86, ppc, asm-generic: moving dirty bitmaps to user space

Hi, sorry for sending from my personal account. The following series are all from me: From: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> The 3rd version of "moving dirty bitmaps to user space". From this version, we add x86 ...

Message posted on the May 4th, 2010 - 9:00 AM ET

[RFC PATCH] frontswap (v15). +--------+ |zsmalloc| +--------+ +---------+ +------------+ | | swap +--->| frontswap + v +---------+ +------------| +--------+ +----->| zcache | +--------+

[Example usage, others are tmem, ramster, and RFC KVM] Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a ...

Message posted on the April 20th, 2012 - 6:00 PM ET

[RFC PATCH 0/8] virtio: new API for addition of buffers, scatterlist changes

The virtqueue_add_buf function has two limitations: 1) it requires the caller to provide all the buffers in a single call; 2) it does not support chained scatterlists: the buffers must be provided as an array of struct scatterlist. Because of ...

Message posted on the February 7th, 2013 - 7:30 AM ET

[RFC, PATCH 00/19] Numa aware LRU lists and shrinkers

Hi Glauber, Here's a working version of my patchset for generic LRU lists and NUMA-aware shrinkers. There are several parts to this patch set. The NUMA aware shrinkers are based on having a generic node-based LRU list implementation, and there are ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2012 - 6:30 PM ET

[RFC PATCH 00/20] Generic Ring Buffer Library (v2)

This patchset implements a generic ring buffer library, which provides a very efficient, yet flexible, API to both tracers and drivers to move large amounts of data within and outside of kernel-space. It comes as a response to Linus mandate from ...

Message posted on the August 17th, 2010 - 7:30 PM ET

[RFC PATCH 00/13] DMA Engine support for AM33xx

This series adds DMA Engine support for AM33xx, which uses an EDMA DMAC. The EDMA DMAC has been previously supported by only a private API implementation (much like the situation with OMAP DMA) found on the DaVinci family of SoCs. There are a ...

Message posted on the September 20th, 2012 - 10:50 AM ET

[RFC PATCH 0/6] fast queue spinlocks

I would like to propose a fast queue spinlock implementation, which could be used on selected spinlocks instead of the default ticket spinlock. I understand that in the past, such proposals have been defeated by two main arguments: - That it is ...

Message posted on the January 22nd, 2013 - 6:20 PM ET

[RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: remove __weak function hw_perf_group_sched_in()

Hi, all From the discussion of thread "[RFC] perf_events: support for uncore a.k.a. nest units", in order to support multiple hw pmu, Peter suggested the first thing that needs to be done is get rid of all the __weak functions (with ...

Message posted on the April 22nd, 2010 - 4:00 AM ET

[RFC PATCH v3 00/16] DMA Engine support for AM33XX

Changes since v2: - Rebased on 3.7-rc1 - Fixed bug in DT/pdata parsing first found by Gururaja that turned out to be masked by some toolchains - Dropped unused mach-omap2/devices.c hsmmc patch - Added AM33XX crossbar DMA event mux support - Added ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2012 - 9:40 AM ET

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