RE: [Xen-devel] Scheduler portability problem

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Thanks!  Please pull

bk://xen-ia64.bkbits.net/xeno-unstable-ia64.bk

to get the complementary changes for arch/ia64.  (Note
that this doesn't fix the ia64 problem yet, just
ensures top of trunk compiles for ia64 and works the same
as before.) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:06 AM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Scheduler portability problem
> 
> 
> On 8 Mar 2005, at 22:46, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort 
> Collins) wrote:
> 
> > Bottom line: The current code in __enter_scheduler() does not easily
> > accommodate other architectures.  I'll be taking a look at what it
> > will take to "fix" it, but wanted to open discussion first.  I know
> > there are some that will say "just change the ia64 code"... because
> > of architectural constraints, this is far FAR more easily said than
> > done.  And there are some that will say that mimicking Linux is
> > a mistake because XINL (Xen is not Linux).  However, I believe this
> > is a case where leveraging the many many years of experience on many
> > many architectures (with said experience only documented in the code
> > itself) of Linux will benefit Xen portability in the long run (and,
> > in my case, in the short run).
> 
> I've changed the tail of __enter_scheduler() to call a new 
> arch-specific function context_switch(). This subsumes 
> switch_to() and 
> schedule_tail() so should give you the freedom to do what you require.
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 


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