From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip tsc synchronization checks if CONSTANT_TSC bit is set.
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49021FCD.8080209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081024192532.GG27492@one.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> In the field they will just continue using clock=pit, like they
> always did on vmware. And also they will not update the Linux kernel.
>
That is a totally bogus assumption. You will typically have the host
platform (Vmware in this case) move much much slower than the guests.
> This is strictly for new installations. And I frankly don't
> see why Linux needs to get white listed workarounds when the
> Hypervisor couldn't as well be fixed. We have the bizarre
> situation here where a HV vendor tries to add workarounds
> to Linux instead of fixing it on their products.
... just like every other hardware vendor.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 1:35 [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 5:55 ` Chris Snook
2008-10-21 19:11 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:26 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:29 ` Jeff Hansen
2008-10-21 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 16:41 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 17:40 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 18:04 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 18:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 19:10 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 19:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 19:47 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 21:41 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:23 ` [PATCH] Skip tsc synchronization checks if CONSTANT_TSC bit is set Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 19:30 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:04 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 19:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:00 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 22:13 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 22:11 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-22 22:54 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23 2:21 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-23 8:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23 23:39 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-23 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 0:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 7:23 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 15:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 19:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-10-24 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-24 19:50 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-24 20:18 ` Dan Hecht
2008-10-24 1:12 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-24 1:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-22 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-22 22:17 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 9:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware Pavel Machek
2008-10-21 16:48 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-21 18:36 ` Pavel Machek
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