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Re: [Xen-devel] VMX-preemption timer

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To:	OK <olga.krivchikova@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] VMX-preemption timer
From:	Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:48:29 +0100
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Hi, 

At 15:47 +0100 on 24 Apr (1240588035), OK wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I am new in Xen and have a problem.
> I use Intel-VT processor, Xen 3.3.0 (built from sources) and hvm-domain 
> Windows Vista. I read in Intel Software Developer Manual about VMX-preemption 
> timer. I want to cause periodic VM-exits and use this feature to do it. But I 
> can't find preemption timer in Xen source codes. For example, there is not 
> preemption timer among vmx exit reasons in \include\asm-x86\hvm\vmx\vmx.h. 
> Does anybody know about VMX-preemption timer support in Xen?

This feature's not used (or needed) by Xen.

Cheers,

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd.
[Company #02300071, SL9 0DZ, UK.]

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