Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> touching the 'timer tick' is the wrong approach. 'stolen time' only 
> matters to the /scheduler tick/. So extend the hypervisor interface to 
> allow the injection of 'virtual' scheduler tick events: via the use of a 
> special clockevents device - do not change clockevents itself.

I didn't.  I was using sloppy terminology: I hang the stolen time
accounting off the Xen timer interrupt routine, just so that it gets run
every now and again.

I suppose I could explicitly hook stolen time accounting into the
scheduler, but its not obvious to me that it's necessary.

    J
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