Xen Developer Email Discussion

Thomas Pfeuffer has questions about the csched_acct() function and the formulas used to determine the credit_fair value. Tim Deegan and George Dunlap respond with comments on the integer division rounding up instead of down. Heiko Wundram also responds with more details on the rounding up issue.

Ruslan Nikolaev asks about invoking a hypercall from HVM domain. What is the correct method? Juergen Gross responds with the exact steps required to make the hypercall from HVM domain. Jeremy Fitzhardinge responds that there is new code to implement pv-on-hvm for newer pvos kernels which can also be used.

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