Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: paravirt time source

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Okay.  I may remove this patch from the patch series and attempt to
>> sit down next week and work out something more complete that also
>> implements stolen time accounting.
>>     
>
> Well, that's a separate problem.  clocksource.read should always return
> real time passed, so stolen time doesn't come into it.

Right.

>  
> paravirt_ops.sched_clock should take stolen time into account, but
> that's almost completely orthogonal.
>   

Except that I wanted to change the hypercall to allow querying of real 
time or "available" time as VMI puts it.

> How are you doing clockevents?
>   

Right now, I'm relying on the PIT but it would be nice to eliminate 
that.  I'd like to move to something PV so that I can make use of 
tickless guest kernels.  I'm very open to suggestion and even more open 
to reusing other people's code :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>     J
>
>   


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