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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emula
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift |
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Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:01:33 +0100 |
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On 2011-02-07 15:58, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 04:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> Why the accumulated_ticks argument?
>>
>> Then the missing ticks is stored in the PeriodicTimer instead of
>> storing it in the device state. That means we won't forget to save it
>> in vmstate.
>>
>> It's convenient because then if we lose ticks in the PeriodicTimer
>> layer, the devices have instance access to that info. When you do a
>> read() from timerfd, it returns the number of coalesced events.
>> That's the interface I had in my mind.
>>
>> We could just add a getter for PeriodicTimer and it would serve the
>> same purpose.
>
> If a drift compensation policy is in effect, you don't need the missed
> ticks, since you will get one callback for each (delayed) tick. If
> there is no drift compensation policy, presumably you aren't interested
> in lost ticks. So the ticks argument isn't very useful.
Exactly.
>
> On the other hand, we need a way to inject lost ticks into a
> PeriodicTimer. If interrupt injection detects that an interrupt was
> coalesced, we want the timer to schedule a new tick for us.
Isn't absence of corresponding call to periodic_timer_ack() sufficient?
Jan
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift,
Jan Kiszka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Avi Kivity, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Ulrich Obergfell, 2011/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Ulrich Obergfell, 2011/02/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/07