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Re: (progress on hpet accuracy) and Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a timer

To: Dave Winchell <dwinchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: (progress on hpet accuracy) and Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a timer mode that disables pending missed ticks
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:56:30 +0000
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On 26/2/08 14:45, "Dave Winchell" <dwinchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> If this is an integration of hpet into the vpt.c infrastructure then that
>> would be very welcome.
>>
> So far it is not, however I may head in that direction.
> Last night's test had an error of .065% on one guest so I still have some
> work to do.

Then I hope that the accuracy improvements have come from a set of changes
whose effects are both explicable and generally for the good (rather than
artefacts of how a particular sub-point release of Linux drives the HPET).

 -- Keir



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