On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:55 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:

We just don't drive the local timer interrupts through the APIC, we make 
hypercalls to schedule local timer alarms.  Which is something we must 
do for UP kernels as well, which use the PIT / PIC.  So there is a need 
for having clockevents code which doesn't program timers through the APIC.

This getting a bit confusing to me .. When your talking about "local
timer interrupts" are you speaking of a periodic interrupt from the
lapic , or the jiffies increment inside the virtual machine?

Daniel