From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753301AbXCMQQ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:16:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753310AbXCMQQ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:16:59 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:2468 "EHLO mail.muc.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753301AbXCMQQ6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:16:58 -0400 Date: 13 Mar 2007 17:16:56 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:16:56 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Chris Wright Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Zachary Amsden , Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , Dan Hecht , Dan Arai , Andrew Morton , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] Sched clock paravirt op fix.patch Message-ID: <20070313161656.GA12128@muc.de> References: <200703020254.l222sOaM009656@zach-dev.vmware.com> <20070313140129.GB92373@muc.de> <45F6C2A3.4040305@goop.org> <20070313160709.GH10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070313160709.GH10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:07:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote: > > In other words, regardless of whether this particular pv_op lives or > > dies, we're going to need to have to deal with stolen time properly. I > > think this hook is reasonable and useful step towards doing that. > > Exactly. Normal interrupts we can handle. Having CPU completely > disappear for unkown time periods we can't, and will need to. But that is just what a interrupt is. -Andi