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I/OAT: Add support for DCA - Direct Cache Access

From:  Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
To:  akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [PATCH 0/7] I/OAT: Add support for DCA - Direct Cache Access
Date:  Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:44:34 -0700
Message-ID:  <20070720004403.13564.14294.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Cc:  davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, christopher.leech@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

The following series implements support for providers and clients of
Direct Cache Access (DCA), a method for warming the cache in the correct
CPU before needing data.

This series applies on GIT commit 5bae7ac9feba925fd0099057f6b23d7be80b7b41

ioat-new-device-ids.patch
	- add devices id's for newer Intel chipsets which support DMA and DCA
ioat-rename-source-file.patch
	- prepare for adding new functionality
ioat-dma-cleanups.patch
	- cleanup some code ugliness
ioat-split-startup-code.patch
	- split the DMA support code from the PCI startup
ioat-add-msi-msix-support.patch
	- add support for various interrupt handling schemes
ioat-add-dca-support.patch
	- add the dca driver
ioat-add-ioat-dca.patch
	- add DCA services to the ioatdma driver

Please pull from my git tree at
	git://lost.foo-projects.org/~sln/linux-2.6 dca-upstream

Thanks to Dan Williams, Auke Kok, PJ Waskiewicz, and Chris Leech for their
help.

sln
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