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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:55:52 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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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.  So, on
a host with n UMLs, we will no longer have n * HZ timer deliveries/sec.

I haven't thought a lot about it, but this seems largely unconnected to how 
the host does its timers.

The one connection I can think of is that 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.

				Jeff