On Thursday, 10/09/2003 at 04:53 GMT, Jan Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick, see this from the positive side, once SIE assist code etc has been > removed, there will no longer be an argument for OCO ;-)
No one said anything about the removal of SIE; there continues to be support for two levels of SIE in the hardware. The I/O assists were the main attraction of V=F (IMO). Looking down the road, the DMA aspects of QDIO (for SCSI and network devices) reduce the benefit of I/O assists anyway. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
