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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Building guests on monotonic Xen
	system time
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:10:46 +0100
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On 3/6/08 20:47, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> wrote:

>> I have a pretty clear vision of what I want now, so I will make the
>> necessary adjustments to the patch. Then we can go from there
> 
> I noticed you fixed a related bug (cset 17760), but haven't
> seen anything that changes timer_mode==0 back to non-monotonic.
> Is that still on your list, or do you want me to submit a
> patch for that?

I think it is correctly handled by my patch. The per-vcpu time offset is
only adjusted when timer_mode==0 and that is added into the result returned
by hvm_get_guest_time() outside of the domain lock or monotinicity checks.

 -- Keir