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[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucur
From: |
Anthony Liguori |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take 2 |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:17:36 -0500 |
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 01:11 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> in reply to this mail I will send a serie of 4 patches that cleans up and
> expands the alarm timer handling in QEMU. Patches have been rebased on QEMU
> CVS.
>
> Patch 1 is mostly a cleanup of the existing code; instead of having multiple
> #ifdefs to handle different timers scattered all over the code I've created a
> modular infrastructure where each timer type is self-contained and generic
> code
> is more readable. The resulting code is functionally equivalent to the old
> one.
>
> Patch 2 implements the "-clock" command line option proposed by Daniel
> Berrange
> and Avi Kivity. By default QEMU tries RTC and then falls back to unix timer;
> user can override the order of the timer through this options. Syntax is
> pretty
> simple: -clock timer1,timer2,etc. (QEMU will pick the first one that works).
>
> Patch 3 adds support for HPET under Linux (which is basically my old patch).
> As
> suggested HPET takes precedence over other timers, but of course this can be
> overridden.
>
> Patch 4 introduces "dynticks" timer source; patch is mostly based on the work
> Dan Kenigsberg. dynticks is now the default alarm timer.
Why do you guard dynticks with #ifdef? Is there any reason why you
wouldn't want to use dynticks?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Luca
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., (continued)
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Andi Kleen, 2007/08/22
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Dan Kenigsberg, 2007/08/22
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Andi Kleen, 2007/08/22
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Dan Kenigsberg, 2007/08/23
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Luca, 2007/08/24
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Add support for HPET periodic timer., Dan Kenigsberg, 2007/08/25
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for dynamic ticks., Luca Tettamanti, 2007/08/17
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Add -clock option., Luca Tettamanti, 2007/08/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take 2, Christian MICHON, 2007/08/17
[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take 2,
Anthony Liguori <=
- [Qemu-devel] RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Dor Laor, 2007/08/18
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Luca Tettamanti, 2007/08/18
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Anthony Liguori, 2007/08/18
- [Qemu-devel] RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure -take2, Dor Laor, 2007/08/19
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Avi Kivity, 2007/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Jamie Lokier, 2007/08/19
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Avi Kivity, 2007/08/19
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Paul Brook, 2007/08/19
- Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Avi Kivity, 2007/08/19
- RE: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take2, Dor Laor, 2007/08/19