Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:11:22 -0500 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I was very pleased when I saw the clocksource/event mechanisms go into > the kernel because it means different hypervisors can have a clock* > implementation to match their own particular time model/interface > without having to clutter up the pv_ops interface, and still have a > well-defined interface to the rest of the kernel's time infrastructure.
It seems to me that it could be useful to have a library of common virtual time code (entirely separate from pv_ops), to avoid re-implementing some apparently common requirements, such as: handling TSC frequency changes, stolen time accounting, synthetic programmable clockevent etc.
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