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On 03/07/2007 01:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:07 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> That would certainly be ideal.  We'll look at the xen, vmi, lguest and
>> kvm paravirtualized time models and see how much they really have in
>> common.  I'm a bit curious about how vmi's time events make their way
>> back into the system.
> 
> By the crude mechanism I'm fighting.
>

Hmm?  They make there way back via interrupts.  How is that crude?