Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Change qemu_set_irq() to return status information.

[Paul Brook]

> I forgot to rebase my branch that is why grep showed nothing ;) But
> there is no much documentation about virtual time base. I can't see why
> this hack cannot coexist with virtual time base. If virtual time base
> somehow guaranties that interrupts will never be lost then qemu_irq_rase()
> will never return zero and the hack will be as good as disabled.

The virtual time base guarantees that a reasonable number of instruction will 
have been executed in a given virtual time period. Ticks can still be "lost" 
if the guest OS keeps the IRQ disable for a long time. However this behaviour 
matches that of real hardware, so they should not be reinserted later.

The only reason this is a problem with normal qemu is because the virtual CPU 
speed is extremely variable, and can stall for very long periods of time.

Paul