Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-clock: add an alarm timer based on timerfd

[Stefan Weil]

Am 19.09.2012 18:12, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 19/09/2012 18:04, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> > The win32 timer still works when these modifications were applied.
> > What are they good for?
> IIUC the Win32 did _not_ work (except on Wine) without these.  Note I'm
> talking about "-clock win32".
>
> So these provide a hint that the problem with the Win32 timer is not in
> the bowels of Windows, but only that it does not adjust the Windows
> scheduler quantum.  Wine does not need it because the Linux scheduler is
> not as lame.
>
> So if we just eliminated timers and used the g_poll timeout (what was
> proposed upthread), Windows would work provided
> timeBeginPeriod/timeEndPeriod are called correctly.
>
> Paolo

I tested with -clock win32 (not the mm timer), and it worked on
Win7 (64 bit QEMU) with and without the modification.

Maybe I can run some more tests on 32 bit Windows (also with g_poll),
but don't expect results soon.

Stefan