Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Rework vlapic timer to behave more like real-hardware

2017-08-25 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 08.08.17 at 15:32, wrote: > Anthony PERARD (3): > x86/vlapic: Introduce vlapic_update_timer > x86/vlapic: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and > periodic mode > x86/vlapic: Apply change to TDCR right away to the timer > > xen/arch/x86/hvm/vlapic.c | 126 >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Rework vlapic timer to behave more like real-hardware

2017-08-08 Thread Anthony PERARD
Hi, When developing PVH for OVMF, I've used the lapic timer. It turns out that the way it is used by OVMF did not work with Xen [1]. I tried to find out how real-hw behave, and write a XTF tests [2]. And this patch series tries to fix the behavior of the vlapic timer. The OVMF driver for the APIC