Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

Suleiman Souhlal
2019-09-24T08:09:08Z

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:23 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> > On 20/09/19 08:27, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> > > To do that, I am changing kvmclock to request to the host to copy
> > > its timekeeping parameters (mult, base, cycle_last, etc), so that
> > > the guest timekeeper can use the same values, so that time can
> > > be synchronized between the guest and the host.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions or feedback would be highly appreciated.
> >
> > I'm not a timekeeping maintainer, but I don't think the
> > kernel/time/timekeeping.c changes are acceptable.
>
> Indeed. #ifdef WHATEVERTHEHECK does not go anywhere. If at all this needs
> to be a runtime switch, but I have yet to understand the whole picture of
> this.

Yeah, I will try to make this a runtime switch.

As for the PTP driver, I don't think it will work for us because we
need CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME to match the host, and from my
understanding, PTP doesn't solve that.

Thanks,
-- Suleiman