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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5636] Run timers from host alarm timer callback
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:23:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811071623.55383.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49144B66.8080601@codemonkey.ws>

On Friday 07 November 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Luis Pureza wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This commit caused a noticeable slowdown while using the instruction
> > counting mechanism. I'm testing with the sparc-test image and with
> > --icount auto.
>
> Yeah, I take it that all timers don't result in signals when using
> icount and that we rely on select() timeout instead.  Let me look a
> little more closely at the code and I'll come up with a fix.

In icount mode vm_clock timers don't use host timers at all.

Instead we calculate how long we want to wait before checking again (the 
EXCP_HALT code in vl.c:main_loop), and use that as the select timeout.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-05 21:04 [Qemu-devel] [5636] Run timers from host alarm timer callback Anthony Liguori
2008-11-05 21:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-07 11:52   ` Luis Pureza
2008-11-07 14:06     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-07 16:23       ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-11-11 21:00       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-11 23:42         ` Luis Pureza

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