On 27/07/16 08:41, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: > >> Hi Linus, >> >> please consider pulling a patch series for 4.8 from: >> >> https://github.com/jgross1/linux.git tags/for-linus-4-8 >> >> Unfortunately 2 of the 6 patches got no Acks as the maintainers didn't >> react in spite of multiple pings and resends. The core modification in >> the scheduler got an Ack from Peter and multiple tests showed no >> regressions. >> >> As the series is touching multiple subsystems I couldn't find anyone >> willing to take the series via his tree (I tried Ingo, Thomas, Peter). >> >> Juergen Gross (6): >> xen: sync xen header >> virt, sched: add generic vcpu pinning support >> smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a cpu >> xen: add xen_pin_vcpu() to support calling functions on a >> dedicated pcpu >> dcdbas: make use of smp_call_on_cpu() >> hwmon: use smp_call_on_cpu() for dell-smm i8k >> >> MAINTAINERS | 1 + >> arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 4 ++ >> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 11 +++++ >> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 40 +++++++++++++++ >> drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c | 51 +++++++++---------- >> drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 36 ++++++++------ >> include/linux/hypervisor.h | 17 +++++++ >> include/linux/smp.h | 3 ++ >> include/xen/interface/sched.h | 100 >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- >> kernel/smp.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++ >> kernel/up.c | 18 +++++++ >> 11 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 include/linux/hypervisor.h > > Sorry, I didn't comment on this series because the concept seemed > uncontroversial to me: you are trying to extend the virtualization > interface to follow hardware constraints and fix bugs. > > PeterZ acked the most critical bits (smp.c) and most of the changes > are on the virtualization side. > > So it's fine to me in principle, but I have not looked into finer > details. Can take it into one of the -tip trees if Linus doesn't > pull it for v4.8.
Thanks. I'd appreciate that. Juergen
