Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: paravirt time source

Rusty Russell
2007-06-19T08:04:39Z

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:44 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >> How are you doing clockevents?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Right now, I'm relying on the PIT but it would be nice to eliminate
> > that. I'd like to move to something PV so that I can make use of
> > tickless guest kernels. I'm very open to suggestion and even more open
> > to reusing other people's code :-)
> >
>
> You'll need an irqchip to inject irqs. I think Ingo's patchset had an
> irqchip implementation.

Lguest has one in -rc4-mm2, but I'd look at Ingo's too. Lguest's is
very much "mY fIrsT IrqchIP"...

We do tickless and it seems to work.

Cheers,
Rusty.