Hi Andi, On Tuesday, 9. May 2006 23:50, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:00, Chris Wright wrote: > > Add support for Xen time abstractions. To avoid expensive traps into > > the hypervisor, the passage of time is extrapolated from the local TSC > > and a set of timestamps and scaling factors exported to the guest via > > shared memory. Xen also provides a periodic interrupt facility which > > is used to drive updates of xtime and jiffies, and perform the usual > > process accounting and profiling. > > There is far too much code duplication in there. I think you need to > refactor the main time.c a bit first and strip that down. > > Also you can drop all the __x86_64__ support for now. Isn't time and timer handling a moving target anyway? The refactoring will be done by the timer people in a completly different manner anyway. Are you sure, you want to disturb these efforts by requiring another refactoring here? Regards Ingo Oeser
