From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Diwaker Gupta <diwaker.lists@gmail.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: periodic tasks in Xen
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:22:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2136FE0.35A2%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <891be9410703061101l22fb5532p78bcd1fd7cd15e25@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/3/07 19:01, "Diwaker Gupta" <diwaker.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whats the recommended way of executing periodic tasks in Xen? I can
> stick stuff in the scheduler loop, but if there's a neater way of
> doing this I'd prefer that. I think I should be able to write a
> function, and have Xen invoke it periodically (via a timer interrupt
> or some other event?) but I'm not sure about the details. Thoughts?
Run it off a timer. See xen/timer.h
> Also, is there any way of delegating such a periodic task within Xen
> to a specific core/processor in the system?
Xen timers are explicitly bound to a particular core when they are
initialised.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 19:01 periodic tasks in Xen Diwaker Gupta
2007-03-06 19:22 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2007-03-11 20:50 ` Diwaker Gupta
2007-03-12 9:23 ` Keir Fraser
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