Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qdev: Introduce lost tick policy property

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:15:11PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Potentially tick-generating timer devices will gain a common property:
> lock_tick_policy. It allows to encode 4 different ways how to deal with
> tick events the guest did not process in time:
> 
> discard - ignore lost ticks (e.g. if the guest compensates for them
>           already)
> delay   - replay all lost ticks in a row once the guest accepts them
>           again
> merge   - if multiple ticks are lost, all of them are merged into one
>           which is replayed once the guest accepts it again
> slew    - lost ticks are gradually replayed at a higher frequency than
>           the original tick
> 
> Not all timer device will need to support all modes. However, all need
> to accept the configuration via this common property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

That looks good - thank you for making the effort to come up with
something that maps so well to the libvirt model for this concept.

Regards,
Daniel
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