linux-kernel - [patch 0/3] Directed yield take 3.

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Message-ID: <20060919111917.GB21713@skybase>
Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:19:17 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: [patch 0/3] Directed yield take 3.

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:53 -0700, Andrew Morton 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?

Ok here we go, 
added some more beef to the description of patch #1 and replaced the
description of patch #2. Good enough now?

-- 
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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