Re: [PATCH 2/9] Sched clock paravirt op fix.patch

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Mar 13 2007 - 12:17:17 EST


On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:07:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) 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.

-Andi
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