[Xen-devel] Question about hpet calls to set_timer

[Beth Kon <eak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello. I'm looking over the Xen hpet.c to see what I can steal for the
qemu implementation I'm working on. (Thank you kindly :-)

One thing that doesn't make sense to me is why, in hpet_timer_fn, the
timer is set with:

set_timer(&h->timers[tn], NOW() + hpet_tick_to_ns(h, period));

rather than calculating the difference between the final value of the
comparator (after the time_after loop) and the current time. This is the
approach used in hpet_set_timer:

set_timer(&h->timers[tn], NOW() + hpet_tick_to_ns(h, diff));

and would seem to be the best way to get as close to the desired expire
time as possible. Can someone explain why the approaches are different
in these 2 places?

-- 
Elizabeth Kon (Beth)
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
email: eak@xxxxxxxxxx


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