Re: hardwired VMI crap

Daniel Walker
2007-03-09T00:22:28Z

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:55 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:

>
> We just don't drive the local timer interrupts through the APIC, we make
> hypercalls to schedule local timer alarms. Which is something we must
> do for UP kernels as well, which use the PIT / PIC. So there is a need
> for having clockevents code which doesn't program timers through the APIC.

This getting a bit confusing to me .. When your talking about "local
timer interrupts" are you speaking of a periodic interrupt from the
lapic , or the jiffies increment inside the virtual machine?

Daniel