Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] Determinitic behaviour with icount.

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 July 2013 16:09, Frederic Konrad <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18/07/2013 17:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>
>> On 18 July 2013 16:02,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I said in the last email, we have issues with determinism with icount.
>>> We are wondering if determinism is really ensured with icount?
>>
>> My opinion is that it *should* be deterministic but it would
>> be unsurprising if the determinism had got broken along the way.
>
>
> Yes, the documentation say that this command can give deterministic results
> that's why we asked.

As part of working through this it would be great if you could
write some developer documentation (in docs/ or possibly as a
comment somewhere sensible) that summarises how icount works,
what you need to do in a target-* to support it, etc.
[I suspect that by the time you're done you're going to be the
expert on icount...]

thanks
-- PMM