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

Carsten Otte
2008-01-21T10:28:32Z

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).