[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic ticks

2007-08-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
"Dynamic ticks" in Qemu: have a SIGALRM generated only when it is needed, instead of every 1 millisecond. This patch requires that the host supports high resolution timers, since it arms a POSIX timer to the nearest Qemu timer's expiry time (which might be rather near). I tried to send a previous

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic ticks

2007-08-13 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
"Dynamic ticks" in qemu: have a SIGALRM generated only when it is needed, instead of every 1 millisecond. This patch requires that the host supports high resolution timers, since it arms a POSIX timer to the nearest Qemu timer's expiry time (which might be rather near). Note that I raise a flag ca