From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stultz Subject: Re: [patch 13/18] time: export time information for KVM pvclock Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:38:05 -0800 Message-ID: <50A4477D.7060308@us.ibm.com> References: <20121115000823.285102321@redhat.com> <20121115000944.540450710@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@goop.org, glommer@parallels.com, zamsden@gmail.com, gleb@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com To: Marcelo Tosatti Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:56038 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992580Ab2KOBiR (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:38:17 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e3.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:38:13 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by d01dlp01.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA7238C803F for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:38:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id qAF1cArV235456 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:38:10 -0500 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id qAF1c93I026671 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:38:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20121115000944.540450710@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/14/2012 04:08 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > As suggested by John, export time data similarly to how its > done by vsyscall support. This allows KVM to retrieve necessary > information to implement vsyscall support in KVM guests. > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Thanks for the updates here. The notifier method is interesting, and if it works well, we may want to extend it later to cover the vsyscall code too, but that can be done in a later iteration. Acked-by: John Stultz thanks -john