From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760873AbYEHQXy (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 12:23:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752028AbYEHQXp (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 12:23:45 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:34702 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752746AbYEHQXo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 12:23:44 -0400 From: Christian Borntraeger To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] stop_machine: make stop_machine_run more virtualization friendly Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 18:23:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Rusty Russell , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org References: <200805081520.38310.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <200805081641.20572.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> <48231518.9010209@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <48231518.9010209@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805081823.35696.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.