Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: hardwired VMI crap | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:23 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:55 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > We just don't drive the local timer interrupts through the APIC, we make > hypercalls to schedule local timer alarms. Which is something we must > do for UP kernels as well, which use the PIT / PIC. So there is a need > for having clockevents code which doesn't program timers through the APIC.
This getting a bit confusing to me .. When your talking about "local timer interrupts" are you speaking of a periodic interrupt from the lapic , or the jiffies increment inside the virtual machine?
Daniel
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