Re: [RFC v3 08/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Set up a background timer for the physical timer emulation

2017-02-02 Thread Christoffer Dall
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:43:08PM -0500, Jintack Lim wrote: > Set a background timer for the EL1 physical timer emulation while VMs > are running, so that VMs get the physical timer interrupts in a timely > manner. > > Schedule the background timer on entry to the VM and cancel it on exit. >

[RFC v3 08/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Set up a background timer for the physical timer emulation

2017-02-01 Thread Jintack Lim
Set a background timer for the EL1 physical timer emulation while VMs are running, so that VMs get the physical timer interrupts in a timely manner. Schedule the background timer on entry to the VM and cancel it on exit. This would not have any performance impact to the guest OSes that currently