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.
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.