On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:37:53PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:07:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > >>* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. > > Interrupts tend to be reasonably short though.
It depends -- under heavy network load you can spend a long time just processing interrupts. -Andi _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
