Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 30/44] xen: Add support for preemption

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To: tgh <wwwwww4187@...>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, lkml <linux-kernel@...>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 1:25 pm

tgh wrote:

Yes, that's the normal mode of operation. The hypervisor will timeslice
multiple vcpus onto a single vcpu.

This patch doesn't relate to that; it's whether a Xen Linux guest's
kernel can be preempted to reschedule processes while running under Xen.
The normal xen-unstable or vendor Xen kernels don't support this, but
the mainline kernel with paravirt_ops/xen support does.

J
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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 30/44] xen: Add support for preemption, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 30, 1:25 pm)
Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 30/44] xen: Add support for preemption, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Oct 30, 9:38 pm)
Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 30/44] xen: Add support for preemption, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Wed Oct 31, 11:07 am)