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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] SCHED: Generic hooks for trapping task preemption
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 18:55 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> + fire_sched_out_preempt_hooks(current);
>> prepare_lock_switch(rq, next);
>> prepare_arch_switch(next);
>>
>
> Damn, I just found a use for this in lguest.
>
> Any chance of handing "next" to the sched_out hook so we can optimize
> the lguest <-> lguest switch?
>
> FYI, lguest turns off PGE globally when you load the module, because
> turning it off on each guest entry v. slow. With these hooks I can be
> far smarter...
>

Sure thang. Will be there in the next version.

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