Re: [PATCH gnumach] lapic timer: Calibrate based on 10 PIT sleeps for 10ms

[Samuel Thibault]

Damien Zammit, le dim. 26 févr. 2023 03:34:59 +0000, a ecrit:
> On 26/2/23 12:31, Damien Zammit wrote:
> > NB: This relies on a fix for QEMU as one-shot PIT mode
> > is currently broken in qemu.
> 
> Here is the corresponding qemu patch:
> 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-02/msg07549.html

I'm afraid this means we should refrain from using this mode.

Because this mode being buggy in qemu means that OSes don't usually use
it, which means that virtualization tools most probably don't notice
their bugs in this mode.

Samuel