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

[Frederic Konrad]

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.
> > Both icount and reverse execution need an instruction counter. icount use a
> > count-down mechanism but reverse execution need a continuous counter. For now
> > we have build a separate counter and we think that these two counters can be
> > merged. However we would like feedback about this before modifying this.
> I definitely think that there should only be one counter, not two.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM