[PATCH] Donate dedicated CPU cycles

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Jun 6 14:25:58 EST 2007


Jake Moilanen writes:

> A Power6 can give up CPU cycles on a dedicated CPU (as opposed to a
> shared CPU) to other shared processors if the administrator asks for it
> (via the HMC).
> 
> This patch enables that to work properly on P6.

Is this something that needs to be controlled from userland, e.g. by a
sysctl or something in /sys?

Paul.



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