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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm-userspace: Make PC speaker emulation aware of in-kernel PIT
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:08:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F30B55.6050207@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090425001319.GB15144@amt.cnet>

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Jan,
>
> While the patch itself looks fine, IMO it would be better to move all of 
> the timer handling to userspace, except the performance critical parts,
> since most of it is generic. Either periodic or one-shot timer, with:
>   

The reason for having the PIT in-kernel is not performance.  The PIT is 
not performance sensitive.

It's because it was easier to do interrupt catch-up by pushing the PIT 
into the kernel which IMHO was the wrong path to go down.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-25 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 20:24 [PATCH] kvm-userspace: Make PC speaker emulation aware of in-kernel PIT Jan Kiszka
2009-04-25  0:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-04-25 13:08   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-04-25 16:28     ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-25 19:59       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-27 13:00         ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-28  4:44         ` David S. Ahern
2009-04-28  7:02           ` Dor Laor
2009-04-27 22:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-05-04  9:34 ` Avi Kivity

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