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Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements
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Alok Kataria wrote:
> 
> In the long run though, I think to get rid of all this complexity, we
> can think of getting the frequency from the hypervisor. Lets see, i will
> try making a patch maybe early next week and send it for the x86 tree.
> 

That should go along with a paravirtualized (virtio) timesource.

	-hpa