Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2011-02-07 16:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 05:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> typedef struct PeriodicTimer PeriodicTimer;
>>
>> /**
>>  * @accumulated_ticks:  the number of unacknowledged ticks in total 
>> since the creation of the timer
>>  **/
> 
> Outdated comment even before the code is committed.  Will be hard to beat.
> 
>> typedef void (PeriodicTimerFunc)(void *opaque);
> 
> s/void *opaque/PeriodicTimer *timer/
> 
> Down with opaques!

What else? DeviceState?

> 
>>
>> PeriodicTimer *periodic_timer_new(PeriodicTimerFunc *cb, void *opaque);
>>
> 
> void periodic_timer_init(PeriodicTimer *timer, PeriodicTimerFunc *cb);
> 
> It is better to embed than to reference.

Likely, though this diverges from exiting QEMUTimer.

BTW, QEMUClock argument is missing in new/init.

Jan

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