Re: [PATCH 1/3] SCHED: Generic hooks for trapping task preemption

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 08:49:37 EST



* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler
> to notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This
> allows the task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or
> Intel's VT registers.

ok, this looks very clean, i've added it to my scheduler tree. You've
tested this with KVM, on both 32-bit and 64-bit, correct?

Ingo
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