On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:34 -0800, Dan Hecht wrote:

On 03/07/2007 01:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:07 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
That would certainly be ideal.  We'll look at the xen, vmi, lguest and

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kvm paravirtualized time models and see how much they really have in
common.  I'm a bit curious about how vmi's time events make their way
back into the system.

By the crude mechanism I'm fighting.

Hmm?  They make there way back via interrupts.  How is that crude?

Simply because you _ABUSE_ timer_init_hook() to set it up. Keep it self
contained and do not impose restrictions on the kernel core code, which
we have to maintain.

	tglx