Re: [RFC 0/4] transaction-based ptimer API

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/10/19 14:00, Peter Maydell wrote:
> No, because stop/run causes the ptimer to "lose time"
> (we stop the underlying timer and restart it). It's
> very common for a device to want to change the ptimer
> properties without a stop/restart -- "set the ptimer
> count value when the guest writes to the device's counter
> register" is the common one. Of the three begin/commit
> blocks in the arm_timer.c conversion, only one of those
> involves calls to stop/run, and even there we only
> call stop/run if the write to the control register
> modified the enable bit.

Ok, thanks.

Paolo