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Kernel patches
2003 bug fix patches
2003 kerntypes patches
2003 On-demand timer patches
2003 toolchain patches
2003 utilitity patches
- gdb-5.3-s390
- modutils-2.4.7-s390
- strace-4.4-1-s390
- strace-4.4-1-s390-01
- strace-4.4-1-s390-02
- lkcdutils-4.1 Reduce dump size (savedump) patch
- lkcdutils-4.1 lkcd dump format version 8 patch
2004 bug fix patches
2004 On-demand timer patches
2005 bug fix patches
2006 bug fix patches
2006 On-demand timer patches
2004-03-24 kernel 2.4.21 On-demand timer patch 03 ("June 2003") (superseded)
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linux-2.4.21-s390-timer-03-june2003.tar.gz / MD5 recommended (2004-03-24)
On demand timer patch:
Category operating system.
Contains a patch for the linux kernel
2.4.21 that will switch off the regular 100 hz interrupts while
a cpu is idle. This saves some cpu cycles in an idle linux image.
In short if you are running many images under VM the on demand
timers are useful but you probably don't want to use it running
under LPAR or native.
The patch introduces a configuration option CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
that lets you choose between the old and the new behaviour.
If this option is selected the run-time
switch /proc/sys/kernel/hz_timer allows the administrator to
enable or disable the 100 hz interrupts in idle.
linux-2.4.21-s390-timer-03-june2003.diff is a complete replacement for linux-2.4.21-s390-timer-02-june2003.diff
The patch covers changes necessary for the Virtual Timer Interface.
To create the complete kernel sources, apply all IBM kernel 2.4.21 patches on top of linux-2.4.21.tar.gz (see www.kernel.org) and as last patch:
+ linux-2.4.21-s390-timer-03-june2003.diff (IBM)
This timer-03-june2003 patch fits on top of the "June 2003 stream" kernel patches from linux-2.4.21-s390-11-june2003 up to (including) linux-2.4.21-s390-17-june2003.