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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 20:32:22 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] High-res-timers part 2 (x86 platform code) take 5.1
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Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> dank@kegel.com said:
> > George's approach would work a lot better when doing lots of UML VM's
> > on a single box, too, wouldn't it?
> 
> My thinking on this is that I'll have UML do the on-demand ticks. ...
> any generic support for on-demand
> ticks would be re-used by UML.  And if UML required generic changes for this,
> then that would obviously affect the other ports somehow.

Yes, exactly.  UML wants on-demand ticks, which is exactly what George's
patch
uses, too.  I'm too far from the code to say, but there ought to be some
commonality there.
- Dan
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