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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/MIPS & dyntick kernel
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:57:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702B0B4.6080909@aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002214826.7ee2fae8@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox a écrit :
>> Well on real hardware, the instruction rate and the timer are linked:
>> the timer run at half the speed of the CPU. As the corresponding
>> assembly code is very small, only uses registers and is run in kernel
>> mode, you know for sure that 48 cycles is more than enough.
> 
> What happens on NMI or if you take an ECC exception and scrubbing stall
> off the memory controller while loading part of that cache line of code
> into memory ?
> 

The code returns -ETIME, and the function is run again with the minimum
delay.

So as long as you don't have an exception every time, the code works.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-02 20:06 QEMU/MIPS & dyntick kernel Aurelien Jarno
2007-10-02 20:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-10-02 20:37   ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-10-02 20:48     ` Alan Cox
2007-10-02 20:57       ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2007-10-02 22:35         ` Ralf Baechle
2007-10-15 15:05 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-10-15 15:58   ` Ralf Baechle
2007-10-15 16:20     ` Thiemo Seufer

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