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[PATCH] s390: qdio V=V pass-through
authorFrank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:20 +0000 (00:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:33:51 +0000 (08:33 -0800)
commit15dc6b3d50ceca048b36914cb24deeaf520de965
treeca477e575a9098e637411332a8d354477143eff4
parentdb6ed7c9d5ffaaf5e4b09663e02cc5cd4cba2207
[PATCH] s390: qdio V=V pass-through

New feature V=V qdio pass-through.

QDIO and HiperSockets processing in z/VM V=V guest environments (as well as
V=R with z/VM running in LPAR mode) requires shadowing of all QDIO
architecture queue elements.  Especially the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs
structures in the hypervisor, and the need to issue SIGA SYNC operations to
observe state changes, eventually causes significant CPU processing overhead
in the hypervisor.

The QDIO pass-through support for V=V guests avoids the shadowing of SBALs and
SLSBs.  This significantly reduces the hypervisor overhead for QDIO based I/O.

Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/s390/Kconfig
drivers/s390/cio/chsc.h
drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c
drivers/s390/cio/qdio.h
include/asm-s390/qdio.h