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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kvm tools: clock sources for hrtimer
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:49:51 +0200
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On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 16:27 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there any way to have high resolution clock sources?
> Currently the native kvm tool seems to support only jiffies:
> $ cat 
> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
> jiffies
> 
> Using qemu-kvm with the same kernel/host I can use tsc, hpet, acpi_pm.
> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
> 

We'll do kvm_clock as well if you compile it in the kernel.

I don't think that using a non-pv clocksource in a guest will do you
much good either.

-- 

Sasha.