[PATCH 2/4] drm/ttm: Add optional support for two-ended allocation

Lauri Kasanen cand at gmx.com
Mon Mar 31 07:51:46 PDT 2014


On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:41:05 +0200
Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 15:28 +0300 schrieb Lauri Kasanen:
> > Allocating small bos from one end and large ones from the other helps
> > improve the quality of fragmentation.
> > 
> > This depends on "drm: Optionally create mm blocks from top-to-bottom" by
> > Chris Wilson.
> > 
> You are breaking bisectability here. This patch deliberately introduces
> a build failure that you only fix up in the next two patches. This isn't
> acceptable, you must squash the following patches in to avoid the
> breakage.
> 
> Also if the first patch is from Chris Wilson and you only did some small
> changes this should be reflected in the author name of the patch.

OK, will squash and resend. Then the changes are mostly mine in the
singular patch.

BTW, how would I handle the case of a different author, when I cannot
use git-send-email due to network mail restrictions? I can't send email
from an address I don't own.

- Lauri


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