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Zachary Amsden 9226d125d9 [PATCH] i386: paravirt CPU hypercall batching mode 
The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched.  This turns
out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a
specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent
instructions.  This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided.
The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch
multicall.

To explain a bit more about lazy modes in the paravirt patches, basically, the
idea is that only one of lazy CPU or MMU mode can be active at any given time.
 Lazy MMU mode is similar to this lazy CPU mode, and allows for batching of
multiple PTE updates (say, inside a remap loop), but to avoid keeping some
kind of state machine about when to flush cpu or mmu updates, we just allow
one or the other to be active.  Although there is no real reason a more
comprehensive scheme could not be implemented, there is also no demonstrated
need for this extra complexity.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13 13:26:21 +01:00
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irq [PATCH] kernel: shut up the IRQ mismatch messages 2007-02-12 09:48:28 -08:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: Change pm_ops handling by userland interface 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
time [PATCH] kernel/time/clocksource.c needs struct task_struct on m68k 2007-02-11 10:51:20 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM support 2006-09-11 13:32:30 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] audit: fix audit_filter_user_rules() initialization bug 2007-02-11 10:51:34 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] struct path: convert kernel 2006-12-08 08:28:46 -08:00
capability.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
compat.c [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
configs.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
cpu.c [PATCH] swsusp: Change code ordering in disk.c 2007-02-11 10:51:19 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
dma.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c [PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c [PATCH] tty: update the tty layer to work with struct pid 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] __user annotations: futex 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c [PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata 2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-12-07 15:39:22 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
kmod.c [PATCH] rename struct namespace to struct mnt_namespace 2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: replace magic numbers with enum 2007-01-30 16:01:35 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] Fix apparent typo CONFIG_LOCKDEP_DEBUG 2007-02-11 11:18:06 -08:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] lockdep: add graph depth information to /proc/lockdep 2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Makefile Remove stack unwinder for now 2006-12-15 08:47:51 -08:00
module.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failures 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
mutex.h
nsproxy.c Revert "[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit" 2007-01-30 13:35:18 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
params.c /sys/modules/*/holders 2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster 2007-01-30 13:40:36 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: prevent signal delivery starvation 2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc(). 2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] order of lockdep off/on in vprintk() should be changed 2007-02-11 11:18:06 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcu: rcutorture suspend fix 2006-12-30 10:55:55 -08:00
relay.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
resource.c devres: device resource management 2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
rtmutex.c [PATCH] clean up and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex 2006-09-29 09:18:09 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched.c [PATCH] i386: paravirt CPU hypercall batching mode 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +01:00
seccomp.c
signal.c [PATCH] pid: remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback 2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() 2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright 2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
sys.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] _proc_do_string(): fix short reads 2007-02-11 11:18:07 -08:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c 2006-10-01 00:39:26 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] x86-64: get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK 2007-02-13 13:26:21 +01:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] io-accounting: via taskstats 2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
uid16.c
user.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
utsname.c [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag 2006-10-02 07:57:22 -07:00
wait.c [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head() 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00