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

To: "Rolf Neugebauer" <rolf.neugebauer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] ac_timer: time to say goodbye?
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:07:34 -0700
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> Of the top of my head:
> Each domain has a timer to schedule timeout values. So 
> depending on how many
> domains are blocking the number of timers varies.
> Then there is one timer per vcpu to generate a ticker for the 
> currently
> running VM.

Every domain or every *active* domain?

For inactive domains, determining when the next ticker
should be delivered could be part of the domain context,
with next tick scheduled when it is made active.


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