Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] KVM: In-kernel PIT model

Yang, Sheng
2008-01-22T01:15:51Z

On Monday 21 January 2008 18:28:32 Carsten Otte wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > The PIT may not be limited to x86 platforms. So I would propose to make
> > the setup more generic and flexible. And I would move the code out of
> > arch/x86, just the speaker support should remain there.
>
> It should also not be common among all archs. On s390 we have CPU
> timer, which is way superior to PIT (clock cycle granularity, no
> vmexit to set it up or deliver the irq, no hypervisor support needed
> because it works transparent).

Yeah, I also checked IA64 side, and it didn't got PIT too. So I put it in x86
directory.

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Thanks
Yang, Sheng