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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] KVM: In kernel pit model
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:53:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D10294.5050400@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803071612.12182.sheng.yang@intel.com>

Yang, Sheng wrote:
> Found more complex for KVM. Xen pulled pm timer down to kernel part, and used 
> the guest TSC as source. So only adjust TSC is OK for it. But we are still 
> using pm timer in QEmu, which using host time as source. So even we pull back 
> TSC, the problem still exists, for 2.6.9 prefer to pm timer by default

Interesting.  I guess we should pull the pm timer into the kernel as 
well.  Timing is too tricky for userspace.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 10:22 [PATCH 1/6] KVM: In kernel pit model Yang, Sheng
2008-03-05  6:54 ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05  7:04   ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-05  9:15     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-05 11:35       ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-05 11:43         ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-05 12:24         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06  7:56         ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-06  8:06           ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-06  8:43             ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-06  9:41               ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-07  8:12                 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-07  8:53                   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-03-07  9:14                     ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-07  9:57                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-06  9:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06  9:25             ` Yang, Sheng
2008-03-06 12:33               ` Ingo Molnar
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2008-03-07 12:52 [PATCH 1/6] KVM: In kernel PIT model Yang, Sheng

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