Jan,

Shows you out of date I am on SIE. I still have bad dreams about HCPRUN and
how to handle intercepts vs. interrupts and the complications it causes. I
did extensive work on something called HCPVINOP. You must like looking at
that nasty old source code sometimes.

Have you tried running Hercules ?

Paul Hanrahan

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan
Jaeger
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: Intel gets virtualization clue?


I did not say anything about the removal of SIE, just the SIE assists (which
require OCO).  SIE itself is documented in SA22-7095 and invoked from
HCPRUN, that's not OCO.

Jan Jaeger.

>From: Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: OT: Intel gets virtualization clue?
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:25:21 -0400
>
>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

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