Subject: Re: Generic IOMMU pooled allocator

From: Sowmini Varadhan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:09:38 -0400

On (03/23/15 15:05), David Miller wrote:
> 
> Why add performance regressions to old machines who already are
> suffering too much from all the bloat we are constantly adding to the
> kernel?

I have no personal opinion on this- it's a matter of  choosing
whether we want to have some extra baggage in the library to support
old hardware, or keep the code lean-and-mean for the future,
where the model has changed.

I'll let others on this list make the call.

--Sowmini