From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752433AbaIEVqJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:46:09 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:48470 "EHLO mail-wg0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751481AbaIEVqH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:46:07 -0400 Message-ID: <540A2F15.5070603@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:45:57 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Gleb Natapov , KVM list Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4 References: <1409912186-22968-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <540A267E.1070002@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il 05/09/2014 23:24, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto: > >> > that besides acting as a workaround, I find the patched code easier to >> > understand, and I clearly stated the same in the tag message. > Well, we might have different opinions about easier to understand. I > did go a great length to distangle the monotonic boot time on which > you are interested from xtime, because the latter does not make any > sense outside of the core timekeeping code. Aside of that I optimized > the whole thing to avoid conversions, loops and hoops. So you just add > another multiply and add to make it more understandable. Fair enough, I've dropped the patch. Thanks for helping out with the core timekeeping fix. Paolo