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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rewrote timer implementation for rtl8139.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:26:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7F1E3E.6090908@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B2D4A6-EE80-48C5-8E8D-67EB56436D07@suse.de>

On 02/19/2010 04:22 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 19.02.2010, at 22:50, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>    
>> On 02/16/2010 02:35 AM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>>      
>>> Add a QEMU timer only when needed (timeout status not set, timeout
>>> irq wanted and timer set).
>>>
>>> This patch is required for Darwin. Patch has been tested under
>>> FreeBSD, Darwin and Linux.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio<freddy77@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>        
>> Alex, I know you've played with this feature for OS X in the past.
>>
>> Is this something we should be enabling unconditionally?
>>      
> I've played with it and realized that
>
> 1) OSX's rtl8139 driver uses this timer instead of tx/rx interrupts to process the queue
> 2) it was broken
>
> I haven't gotten around to test if this patch makes it work, but I'd suppose so.
>
> So yes, I think it should be enabled by default. It's a feature real hw has, so we should emulate it.
>    

The thing that concerns me is why it was disabled by default.  Igor, 
what was the reasoning for disabling it if you recall?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16  8:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rewrote timer implementation for rtl8139 Frediano Ziglio
2010-02-19 21:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-19 22:22   ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-19 23:26     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-02-20  5:52       ` Igor Kovalenko
2010-02-20 16:14         ` Frediano Ziglio
2010-02-20 16:06       ` Frediano Ziglio
2010-02-20 17:13         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-20 17:27       ` Frediano Ziglio
2010-02-25 14:24         ` Paul Brook
2010-02-20 17:50       ` Frediano Ziglio
2010-02-19 23:24 ` Anthony Liguori

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