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Re: [Xen-devel] ac_timer: time to say goodbye?

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ac_timer: time to say goodbye?
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:06:28 +0100
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On 23 May 2005, at 20:59, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:

Should ac_timer be removed and replaced by a lighter weight
mechanism, or at least its use deprecated?

What's heavyweight about it? We can maybe slim down the interface a little, but we need a mechanism for managing at least an alarm timeout per vcpu. I don't imagine anyhting much simpler than ac_timer would really fit the bill.

 -- Keir


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