Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Time drift again.

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>   
>>  After my last patch to fix interrupt coalescing was rejected
>> on the basis that it is too intrusive we decided to make the
>> fix much more localized and only fix the problem for RTC time
>> source. Unfortunately it is impossible to fix the problem entirely
>> inside RTC code like Andrzej proposed since Windows reads RTC
>> register C more then once on each time interrupt so it is impossible
>> to count reliably how many interrupt windows actually handled.
>> Proposed solution is localized to I386 target and is disabled by
>> default. To enable it "-rtc-td-hack" flag should be used.
>>     
>
> I truly don't understand why the time correction is done by arcane
> guest-specific details like counting register reads, making interrupts
> behave different from real hardware, and only correcting guests which
> use particular clock sources - instead of simply warping virtual time
> (in all the places it's used) which might actually work on all targets
> and all guest OSes.
>
> I don't remember anybody responding to that suggestion.
> Was it a silly one?
>   

Maybe it's silly, but I don't even understand it.

What do you mean by "warping virtual time"?  I have a hard time with 
these words even when used singly.

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