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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	shaohua.li@intel.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] SCHED: Generic hooks for trapping task preemption
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:49:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725124911.GC6841@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11853673871109-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com>


* Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 12:43 [PATCH 0/3] Scheduler preemption hooks, #2 Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 12:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] SCHED: Generic hooks for trapping task preemption Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 12:49   ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 12:49   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-25 12:51     ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 12:52     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 13:13       ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 13:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 12:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: Use the scheduler preemption hooks to make kvm preemptible Avi Kivity
2007-07-25 12:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: Convert vm lock to a mutex Avi Kivity

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