>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at  1:36 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy
Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> It also should allow you to do
> some interesting new things, like use spare CP capacity more easily to
> supplement IFL capacity "on demand."  I guess you could say that the IFLs
> become a lot more like zAAPs and zIIPs, since you could view them as
> supplementing the CP capacity pool for Linux workloads rather than as a
> completely separate pool.  And that further increases the cost- and
> performance-efficiency of the mainframe.

I don't think that's in the program, at least not yet.  My understanding was 
that within a particular z/VM guest, you would still have the restriction of 
not mixing IFLs and other processor types.


Mark Post

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