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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] range timer support

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] range timer support
From: "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:50:03 +0800
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 31/10/08 02:23, "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Looks I misunderstand your points. Do you mean using the range timer
>> implementation to implement the interface of [deadline,
>> deadline+configurable_global_slop]? If so, I would more prefer this
>> approach and would be happy to revise the patch:)
> 
> I mean that set_timer() would always queue a range timer with window
> of size configurable_global_slop.
> 
>  -- Keir

I see. Then I will start to revise the range timer patch as follow:
- remove the TIMER_SLOP macro
- add "global timer slop" xen option, and make set_timer to use the global slop.
- remove the set_range_timer API, since it is not easy to use currently

Best Regards
Ke
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