Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:52:12PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >What is "catchup" and what is "gradual"?
> 
> Just placeholders to point out that there are different algorithms
> to replaying interrupts to a guest.  I called what we implemented
> "catchup" since we pretty much immediately send all of the missed
> ticks to the guest in order to catch-up.
> 
> I'd imagine that a 'gradual' algorithm would shorten the tick
> interval until you've caught up.  The Hyper-V paravirtualization
> manual has provisions for the guest to request what type of
> algorithm is used so it makes sense to accommodate this in our
> syntax.
> 
We implement gradual then.

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                        Gleb.