[PATCH] powerpc: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition
FUJITA Tomonori
fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp
Fri Oct 24 16:41:09 EST 2008
The block layer dropped the virtual merge feature
(b8b3e16cfe6435d961f6aaebcfd52a1ff2a988c5). BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
definition is meaningless now (For POWER, BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY has been
meaningless for a long time since POWER disables the virtual merge
feature).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h | 7 -------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
index 08266d2..494cd8b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
@@ -713,13 +713,6 @@ static inline void * phys_to_virt(unsigned long address)
*/
#define page_to_phys(page) ((phys_addr_t)page_to_pfn(page) << PAGE_SHIFT)
-/* We do NOT want virtual merging, it would put too much pressure on
- * our iommu allocator. Instead, we want drivers to be smart enough
- * to coalesce sglists that happen to have been mapped in a contiguous
- * way by the iommu
- */
-#define BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY 0
-
/*
* 32 bits still uses virt_to_bus() for it's implementation of DMA
* mappings se we have to keep it defined here. We also have some old
--
1.5.4.2
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