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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: A clocksource question
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:06:39 -0800
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On 03/10/2010 04:52 PM, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:
> BTW, how does the clocksource=jiffies work on a pvops kernel in Dom0?
>    

Not very well.  clocksource=jiffies just sets up timer interrupts at 
approx 100ms intervals and assumes that's 100ms.  You get very low res 
timers and timekeeping.

     J