[PATCH] ppc64: enforce medium thread priority in hypervisor calls

Jake Moilanen moilanen at austin.ibm.com
Thu May 5 06:48:35 EST 2005


On Wed, 4 May 2005 15:35:59 -0500
Jake Moilanen <moilanen at austin.ibm.com> wrote:

> > Calls into the hypervisor do not raise the thread priority. Ensure we
> > are running at medium priority upon entry to the hypervisor.
> 
> Anton, what's the purpose of this patch.  I thought only RS64 had HMT,
> and those boxes don't make hypervisor calls.

Disregard...Olof reminded me that SMT uses the same scheme.  

Jake



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