On 10/15/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we want to make the clocksource useful for Windows we need to go
> through the apic as that will allow the TPR to mask the interrupt when
> Windows isn't ready to receive it.  However I don't know whether it is
> possible to integrate a paravirt clocksource into Windows.

My politically-correct side told me to say that the solution that
works also in Windows is the best one ;-)

> For Linux, we might as well go further and provide a completely
> paravirtualized irqchip instead of trying to integrate a paravirtualized
> clocksource into a fullyvirtualized irqchip.
>

Yes, definitely. In your opinion, what's the size of the gap between
the "we can", and the "we should" here?

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