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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] KVM/ia64 SN2 RTC backed ITC emulation
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:20:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B63EE4.8070101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225163851.288440214@sgi.com>

jes@sgi.com wrote:
> This set of patches switches KVM to use the SN2 RTC clock source as
> backing for the ITC emulation, as the ITC isn't synchronized on SN2.
>
> The RTC is a memory mapped register which needs to be mapped into the
> address space of the VMM module, and also accessed from the kernel. I
> could try and split the changes into seperate files, but I honestly
> thing it would cause more clutter than doing it this way.
>
> With this change I can boot 64 vcpus on ia64 at stable boot times,
> with the ITC backed ITC emulation, the boot would regularly hang for
> minutes because time would suddenly go backwards.
>
> Let me know what you think - this patch set is against Avi's tree as
> of earlier today.
>   

Applied, thanks.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-10 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25 16:38 [patch 0/4] KVM/ia64 SN2 RTC backed ITC emulation jes
2009-02-27 14:58 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-03-10 10:20 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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