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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 04:52:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer
	emulation to alleviate time drift
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>


Anthony,

in reply to: 
> My point is that there's really low hanging fruit and while for some
> curious reason I don't actually see this patch, I believe that a patch
> like this probably can help us quite a lot in the short term.

I've sent the patch in two separate emails:

- code part 1 (introduces the qemu command line option)
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/67347

- code part 2 (implements compensation of lost interrupts)
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/67348


Regards,

Uli Obergfell