[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390.

Use the new diagnose 0x9c in the spinlock implementation for s390.  It
yields the remaining timeslice of the virtual cpu that tries to acquire a
lock to the virtual cpu that is the current holder of the lock.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2006-09-30 23:27:45 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cdc39363d3
commit 3c1fcfe229
6 changed files with 87 additions and 35 deletions
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ extern unsigned long machine_flags;
#define MACHINE_IS_P390 (machine_flags & 4)
#define MACHINE_HAS_MVPG (machine_flags & 16)
#define MACHINE_HAS_IDTE (machine_flags & 128)
#define MACHINE_HAS_DIAG9C (machine_flags & 256)
#ifndef __s390x__
#define MACHINE_HAS_IEEE (machine_flags & 2)