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

[Alex Bligh]

--On 25 July 2013 14:05:30 +0200 Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alex Bligh's series gives each AioContext its own rt_clock.  This avoids
> the need for synchronization in the simple case.  If we require timer
> access between threads then we really need to synchronize.
>
> You pointed out in another email that vm_clock stops when the guest is
> paused.  I think we can find a solution for I/O throttling and QED,
> which use vm_clock in the block layer.  Note that block jobs already use
> rt_clock.

I would happily at a QEMUClock of each type to AioContext. They are after
all pretty lightweight.

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Alex Bligh