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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: hardwired VMI crap
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:23 -0800
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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