From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qemu polling KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS when stopped
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:09:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171020140917.GH5109@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22d62b58-725b-9065-1f6d-081972ca32c3@redhat.com>
> Unfortunately that's not possible in general. Windows uses the periodic
> timer to track wall time (!), so if you do that your clock is going to
> be late when you resume the guest.
But when the guest cannot execute instructions
it cannot see whatever the handler does.
So the handler could always catch up after stopping for longer,
without making any difference.
>
> But yeah, we might have to figure out a way to do that for non-Windows
> guests. But why is the RTC periodic timer on at all in your setup?
Sorry this one was actually a Windows guest.
I'll check the Linux guests too.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-20 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 21:34 qemu polling KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS when stopped Andi Kleen
2017-10-18 7:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-18 17:49 ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-18 19:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-20 0:34 ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-20 8:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-20 14:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-10-20 15:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-20 20:50 ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-20 22:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 14:26 ` Kevin Locke
2020-06-25 16:28 ` Andi Kleen
2020-06-25 18:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 18:56 ` Kevin Locke
2020-06-25 19:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-25 20:10 ` Kevin Locke
2020-06-26 15:14 ` Kevin Locke
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