Re: question about periodic clocks

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Uuurg. That's ugly. clockevents expect a per CPU timer especially for
> dynamic ticks. If you cannot provide a per cpu timer, then you probably
> need to use the broadcast trick.
>   

Ah, apologies, I'm wrong about this.  I misread the Xen code; the timers
are per-vcpu, but as an implementation detail within the hypervisor it
keeps track of which real cpu is managing that timer.  But logically the
timers are per-vcpu.

    J
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