Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-11-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:33:09 -0400 Alan Altmark said: On Friday, 10/30/2009 at 05:14 EDT, DUBOIS Laurent (EXT DUBOIS) laurent.dub...@sncf.fr wrote: I have a zTPF guy who tells me that z/TPF will support the enhanced DAT facility soon to improve performance. When I checked our CPU facility

enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread DUBOIS Laurent (EXT DUBOIS)
Hi, I have a zTPF guy who tells me that z/TPF will support the enhanced DAT facility soon to improve performance. When I checked our CPU facility list installed, the machine native shows the enhanced DAT facility installed, but z/VM does not. I am wondering if this facility is z/VM generation

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Bill Holder
z/VM does not currently support the Enhanced DAT Facility. And it's not quite as simple as improves performance. There are tradeoffs involved, and it's not exactly a small undertaking. - Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM Hi, I have a zTPF guy who tells me that z/TPF will support

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/30/2009 at 05:14 EDT, DUBOIS Laurent (EXT DUBOIS) laurent.dub...@sncf.fr wrote: I have a zTPF guy who tells me that z/TPF will support the enhanced DAT facility soon to improve performance. When I checked our CPU facility list installed, the machine native shows

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Neale Ferguson
Can guests use it under z/VM? On 10/30/09 3:33 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: No, you cannot persuade z/VM to use enhanced DAT (EDAT). Another religious war in the offing. One of the ways EDAT improves performance is by eliminating page tables (leaving more room in the

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Bill Holder
No, neither guest support nor host exploitation is included in current versions of z/VM. - Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:52 -0400, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: Can guests use it under z/VM? On 10/30/09 3:33 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 10/30/2009 at 03:37 EDT, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: Can guests use it under z/VM? No. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Schuh, Richard
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: enhanced DAT facility On Friday, 10/30/2009 at 03:37 EDT, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: Can guests use it under z/VM? No. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: enhanced DAT facility

2009-10-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
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