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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH uq/master] kvm: Drop unused kvm_pit_in_kernel
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:18:27 +0200
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-03-21 14:41, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:39:47PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> On 2012-03-21 14:36, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>> On 03/21/2012 02:36 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>> This is now implied by kvm_irqchip_in_kernel.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> So we can't have -no-kvm-pit?
> >>>
> >>> No huge loss, but unexpected.
> >>
> >> See e81dda195556e72f8cd294998296c1051aab30a8.
> >>
> > I am curious what is the reason for upstream to not supporting disabling the
> > in-kernel PIT separately?
> 
> It was considered no longer relevant:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/85393
> 
Hmm, may be we should think about this some more. If in the (not so far)
future we want to drop pit emulation from the kernel we may want to support
-no-kvm-pit to allow migration from old kernels to new one.

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			Gleb.