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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Deferrable Timer
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"Dave Winchell" <dwinchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Deferrable Timer |
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"Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx> |
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:37:44 +0800 |
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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Deferrable Timer |
Dave,
Glad to see there is deferrable timer application. Please go ahead with
that. And I will keep you updated if there is finding in my side.
BTW, Could you please elaborate more on the "guest-handles-missed-tick"
case? Since there is no need to inject missed tick to guest, which timer
would be used as deferrable timer?
Best Regards
Ke
Dave Winchell wrote:
> Ke,
>
> One would think that hpet or vpt support for the
> guest-handles-missed-ticks policy would be a good application for a
> deferrable timer.
> If a deferrable timer were used, then the comparator (cmp) would have
> to
> be warped to a non-integer multiple of the period. This is because
> Linux reads the comparator register to estimate the delay since the
> interrupt
> was posted.
> I don't think warping like this will be a problem. At some point, I
> can test this.
>
> I think we could use the deferrable timer for the
> guest-does-not-handle-missed-ticks
> policy as well.
>
> Any investigation that you want to do in the platform timer area would
> be fine.
> Or I can do it, but that will probably be after I do the vpt.c/hpet.c
> integration
> work.
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>
>> Best Regards
>> Ke
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