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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: gettimeofday "slow" in RHEL4 guests
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:14:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4gkcdsy.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492B8204.5@cisco.com> (David S. Ahern's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:41:40 -0700")

"David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com> writes:
>
> Any chance the pit or pmtmr options can be optimized a bit?

They both will require vmexits and never be really fast. Same 
for HPET. If you want fast gtod you really need to make TSC work.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 17:47 gettimeofday "slow" in RHEL4 guests David S. Ahern
2008-11-25  4:41 ` David S. Ahern
2008-11-25 10:14   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-11-25 11:17     ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 11:48       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-25 12:13         ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-25 12:52           ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-28 18:38             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-12-29 12:37               ` Yang, Sheng
2008-12-29 13:11               ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-29 16:12                 ` Dor Laor
2008-12-29 16:27                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-29 16:29                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-25 17:20   ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-11-25 19:09     ` David S. Ahern

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