Please post any replies to this list.  We're interested in this patch, too.

"Never trust any computer you can lift."
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company

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> From:         Patterson, Ross
> Reply To:     Linux on 390 Port
> Sent:         Monday, February 4, 2002 11:11 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Anybody running the "on demand timer" patch?
>
> I'd like to trade notes with anyone who's actually running IBM's "on
> demand timer"
> kernel patch on an S/390 or zSeries box, especially under VM.  We're
> trying to
> reduce unnecesary CPU consumption by our several dozen Linux/390 guests,
> and
> the VMer in me "knows" that getting rid of the 100-times-a-second timer
> pop must
> be a good thing.  But before I go through the rigamarole of getting it
> installed on
> a system I can try real workloads on, I'd like to see what others have
> experienced.
>
> Thanks,
> Ross Patterson
> Computer Associates
>
>

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