Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/8] arm AioContext with its own timer stuff

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2013-07-25 20:53, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 25 July 2013 14:32:59 +0200 Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> I would happily at a QEMUClock of each type to AioContext. They are
>>> after
>>> all pretty lightweight.
>>
>> What's the point of adding tones of QEMUClock instances? Considering
>> proper abstraction, how are they different for each AioContext? Will
>> they run against different clock sources, start/stop at different times?
>> If the answer is "they have different timer list", then fix this
>> incorrect abstraction.
> 
> Even if I fix the abstraction, there is a question of whether it is
> necessary to have more than one timer list per AioContext, because
> the timer list is fundamentally per clock-source.

So far. Once we support different handler thread for timers, there will
be more lists than clock sources.

Jan

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