Re: [PATCH 2/3] High-res-timers part 2 (x86 platform code) take 5.1

From: Dan Kegel (dank@kegel.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 22:32:22 EST


Jeff Dike wrote:
>
> dank@kegel.com said:
> > George's approach would work a lot better when doing lots of UML VM's
> > on a single box, too, wouldn't it?
>
> My thinking on this is that I'll have UML do the on-demand ticks. ...
> any generic support for on-demand
> ticks would be re-used by UML. And if UML required generic changes for this,
> then that would obviously affect the other ports somehow.

Yes, exactly. UML wants on-demand ticks, which is exactly what George's
patch
uses, too. I'm too far from the code to say, but there ought to be some
commonality there.
- Dan
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