Re: [PATCH] kvm-userspace: Make PC speaker emulation aware of in-kernel PIT

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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Jan,

While the patch itself looks fine, IMO it would be better to move all of the timer handling to userspace, except the performance critical parts,
since most of it is generic. Either periodic or one-shot timer, with:

The reason for having the PIT in-kernel is not performance. The PIT is not performance sensitive.

It's because it was easier to do interrupt catch-up by pushing the PIT into the kernel which IMHO was the wrong path to go down.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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