| | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 25/35] Add Xen time abstractions | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2006 23:50:03 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:00, Chris Wright wrote: > Add support for Xen time abstractions. To avoid expensive traps into > the hypervisor, the passage of time is extrapolated from the local TSC > and a set of timestamps and scaling factors exported to the guest via > shared memory. Xen also provides a periodic interrupt facility which > is used to drive updates of xtime and jiffies, and perform the usual > process accounting and profiling.
There is far too much code duplication in there. I think you need to refactor the main time.c a bit first and strip that down.
Also you can drop all the __x86_64__ support for now.
-Andi
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