Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263847AbUDVIDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:03:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263854AbUDVIDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:03:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58277 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263847AbUDVIDJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:03:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (9/9): no timer interrupts in idle. From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040421144948.GJ2951@mschwid3.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <20040421144948.GJ2951@mschwid3.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XgnHsI/LsbJjf1UFQI0r" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1082620965.4690.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:02:46 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 38 --=-XgnHsI/LsbJjf1UFQI0r Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:49, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > [PATCH] s390: no timer interrupts in idle. >=20 > From: Martin Schwidefsky >=20 > 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. --=-XgnHsI/LsbJjf1UFQI0r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAh3wlxULwo51rQBIRAkBlAKCbSp2S3i0DsNiNy/+pteG61P5sMACeN0bd tToT3bOaMCRhKb3EJkdIM2Q= =3LhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XgnHsI/LsbJjf1UFQI0r-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/