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Message-Id: <1173399743.20300.3.camel@dwalker1> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:23 -0800 From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> To: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, tglx@...utronix.de, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@...are.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Daniel Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>, Daniel Arai <arai@...are.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org> Subject: Re: hardwired VMI crap On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:55 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > We just don't drive the local timer interrupts through the APIC, we make > hypercalls to schedule local timer alarms. Which is something we must > do for UP kernels as well, which use the PIT / PIC. So there is a need > for having clockevents code which doesn't program timers through the APIC. This getting a bit confusing to me .. When your talking about "local timer interrupts" are you speaking of a periodic interrupt from the lapic , or the jiffies increment inside the virtual machine? Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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