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* [patch 0/3] Directed yield.
@ 2006-09-18 12:19 Martin Schwidefsky
  2006-09-18 17:53 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2006-09-18 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-arch, mingo, paulus

Hi Andrew,
nobody has complained about my spinlock yield patches. There are
now three patches in the patch set: the _raw_[spin,read,write]_relax
introduction, the powerpc enablement and the s390 diag 0x9c patch.
Please add to -mm.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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* Re: [patch 0/3] Directed yield.
  2006-09-18 12:19 [patch 0/3] Directed yield Martin Schwidefsky
@ 2006-09-18 17:53 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2006-09-18 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Martin Schwidefsky; +Cc: linux-arch, mingo, paulus

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:19:59 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> nobody has complained about my spinlock yield patches.

Complain.

I had to hunt around a bit to discover that this functionality has
something to do with "giving up the timeslice of a virtual cpu in favour of
a specific cpu".  And also that it is expected to be of some
briefly-alluded-to benefit on powerpc.

So...  Could you please flesh out the description/rationale rather a lot
and cc linux-kernel on the patches?

Thanks.

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