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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle.
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:02:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082620965.4690.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040421144948.GJ2951@mschwid3.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

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On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:49, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> [PATCH] s390: no timer interrupts in idle.
> 
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> 
> This patch add a system control that allows to switch off the jiffies
> timer interrupts while a cpu sleeps in idle. This is useful for a system
> running with virtual cpus under z/VM.


is this generally useful, eg can all architectures use the
infrastructure you propose ? I seriously hope so; s390 isn't the only
one who would benefit, I'd love to see a generic thing for this.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21 14:49 [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-21 15:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-22  8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-21 16:31 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-21 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-21 16:37 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-21 20:43 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-21 20:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-21 21:01     ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-21 18:52 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-21 21:58 ` Dipankar Sarma
     [not found] <1Nt5d-84u-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1NwPD-2RW-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1NwPE-2RW-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1Nx8Y-3ev-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-21 22:38       ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-22  8:48 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22  8:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-22  8:55 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22 10:53 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22 10:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-22 11:09 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22 11:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-22 12:14 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22 12:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-22 12:44 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-22 13:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-04-23  3:32 ` George Anzinger
2004-04-22 14:56 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-28 19:07 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-23  8:48 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-29  7:43 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-29  8:16 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-04-29  8:24 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-29 12:06 ` Dipankar Sarma

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