Re: [PATCH/RFC] stop_machine: make stop_machine_run more virtualization friendly

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 12:23:55 EST


Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 schrieb Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
> > Sorry, forgot to mention. Its kvm.git from 2 days ago on s390.
> >
>
> And on s390 cpu_relax yields the vcpu? That's not common behaviour
> across architectures.


Yes, cpu_relax on s390 calls diagnose 44. Diagnose 44 translates to yield on
z/VM and LPAR. Guessing from the number of the diagnose, I think it was used
on z/VM for timeslice yielding long before Linux came to s390.
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