Re: [Xen-devel] ac_timer: time to say goodbye?

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 May 2005, at 21:28, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:

> I suspect that the whole functionality of it can be replaced
> with a couple of time variables that are checked and
> manipulated in the timer interrupt code and a single
> scheduler/timer routine in the generic scheduler.
We are going to strip out the periodic ticker entirely (at least in 
arch/x86) and have just a programmable one-shot timer. We need to keep 
track of what is the nearest event we care about so we know what to 
program into the one-shot timer.
I think the interface could be simplified a little (fold 
mod_ac_timer/add_ac_timer into a single function, for example), but the 
implementation is already very pared down. I image it would hardly save 
100 lines, or bytes of hypervisor code, to replace the heap with a 
list, for example.
 -- Keir


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