On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > nobody has complained about my spinlock yield patches. > > Complain. > > I had to hunt around a bit to discover that this functionality has > something to do with "giving up the timeslice of a virtual cpu in favour of > a specific cpu". And also that it is expected to be of some > briefly-alluded-to benefit on powerpc. > > So... Could you please flesh out the description/rationale rather a lot > and cc linux-kernel on the patches?
Ok here we go, added some more beef to the description of patch #1 and replaced the description of patch #2. Good enough now? -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
