From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QRYEG-00058A-0c for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:04 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRYED-00056l-9Q for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRYEA-0001Wd-TC for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:00 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f45.google.com ([209.85.218.45]:51114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRYEA-0001WV-Bw; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:19:58 -0400 Received: by yib19 with SMTP id 19so2389562yib.4 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.191.200 with SMTP id g48mr7711534yhn.437.1306883997491; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.109] (cpe-70-123-132-139.austin.res.rr.com [70.123.132.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k10sm557976yhj.78.2011.05.31.16.19.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 May 2011 16:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE5779B.4070304@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:19:55 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kiszka References: <1306705831-59385-1-git-send-email-andreas.faerber@web.de> <4DE4F16D.6030009@codemonkey.ws> <4DE4F5E2.5020906@siemens.com> <4DE4FAA1.7080109@codemonkey.ws> <4DE5011C.80000@siemens.com> <98DD53CD-B6E2-4739-A952-0F21019485A4@suse.de> <4DE50DC5.2060806@codemonkey.ws> <35D43777-76C2-415D-83FF-143C4D2EF774@suse.de> <4DE5462E.80908@codemonkey.ws> <4DE560F1.70407@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4DE560F1.70407@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.218.45 Cc: "qemu-trivial@nongnu.org" , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] Use SIGIO with caution X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 23:20:02 -0000 On 05/31/2011 04:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-05-31 23:11, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 31.05.2011 um 21:49 schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>> At one point in time, it was the only way to get a high res clock. >>> Now, it Just Works provided you don't have an ancient kernel. >> >> I'm curious, what's ancient these days? 2.6.29 or more like 2.4.x? > > IIRC, highres timers started to work around 2.6.24 on x86. Anyone on > such an old kernel is likely also not interested in updating QEMU. Yeah, 2.6.24 is ancient now that we're in the 3.0 world ;-) Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Jan > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRYEG-00058J-Cs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRYEF-0001Xo-1m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE5779B.4070304@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:19:55 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1306705831-59385-1-git-send-email-andreas.faerber@web.de> <4DE4F16D.6030009@codemonkey.ws> <4DE4F5E2.5020906@siemens.com> <4DE4FAA1.7080109@codemonkey.ws> <4DE5011C.80000@siemens.com> <98DD53CD-B6E2-4739-A952-0F21019485A4@suse.de> <4DE50DC5.2060806@codemonkey.ws> <35D43777-76C2-415D-83FF-143C4D2EF774@suse.de> <4DE5462E.80908@codemonkey.ws> <4DE560F1.70407@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4DE560F1.70407@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use SIGIO with caution List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: "qemu-trivial@nongnu.org" , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , Avi Kivity On 05/31/2011 04:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-05-31 23:11, Andreas Färber wrote: >> Am 31.05.2011 um 21:49 schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>> At one point in time, it was the only way to get a high res clock. >>> Now, it Just Works provided you don't have an ancient kernel. >> >> I'm curious, what's ancient these days? 2.6.29 or more like 2.4.x? > > IIRC, highres timers started to work around 2.6.24 on x86. Anyone on > such an old kernel is likely also not interested in updating QEMU. Yeah, 2.6.24 is ancient now that we're in the 3.0 world ;-) Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Jan >