Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/8] arm AioContext with its own timer stuff

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 24/07/2013 10:01, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
>>>
>>
>> Part of it should be fixed by os_setup_early_signal_handling.
>>
>> This is corroborated by the fact that without
>> os_setup_early_signal_handling Wine always works, and Windows breaks.
> 
> This:
>  http://www.windowstimestamp.com/description
> suggests that whilst WaitForMultipleEvents has a millisecond timeout,
> one can (see section 3.2) use these to wait for an object which is
> itself a timer and expires with - in this case - 100ns resolution which
> is probably enough.
> 
> Again I know nothing about Windows so this may be completely wrong.

This is roughly what the alarm timer code does on Windows.  I also don't
know much about the internals, I wouldn't worry too much.

Paolo