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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add a global synchronization point for pvclock
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:54:20 +0300
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On 04/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 02:31 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> btw, do you want this code in pvclock.c, or shall we keep it kvmclock
>> specific?
>>      
> I think its a pvclock-level fix.  I'd been hoping to avoid having
> something like this, but I think its ultimately necessary.
>    

Did you observe drift on Xen, or is this "ultimately" pointing at the 
future?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.