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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: pv clock: kvm is incompatible with xen :-(
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:23:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48091F6D.7030600@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4808AF8C.5010500@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> I'm looking at the guest side of the issue right now, trying to identify
> common code, and while doing so noticed that xen does the
> version-check-loop in both get_time_values_from_xen(void) and
> xen_clocksource_read(void), and I can't see any obvious reason for that.
>  The loop in xen_clocksource_read(void) is not needed IMHO.  Can I drop it?
>   

No.  The get_nsec_offset() needs to be atomic with respect to the 
get_time_values() parameters.  There could be a loopless 
__get_time_values() for use in this case, but given that it almost never 
loops, I don't think its worthwhile.

    J

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11  7:33 pv clock: kvm is incompatible with xen :-( Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-11 12:06 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-11 13:44   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-11 15:01     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-11 19:02     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-18 14:26       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-18 22:23         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-04-21  7:31           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-21 11:46             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-21 12:50               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-21 13:34                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-21 14:20                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-22 17:54                 ` Glauber Costa
2008-04-23  6:03                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-24 12:57                     ` Glauber Costa

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