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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lguest: handle dodgy/non-existent TSC. Guest code.
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:10:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183536605.6005.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070704064402.GB10345@bakeyournoodle.com>

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 16:44 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> Why bother installing an lguest_clock which is the same as jiffies?
> Wouldn't it be better to just use the system provided jiffies
> clocksource in the case where you haven't been provided with
> lguest_data.tsc_khz ?

Hi Tony!

	Yes, but jiffies is the lowest-rated clock (so PIT will get chosen).  I
initially mugged clocksource_jiffies.rating, but that felt wrong: it's
currently not registered when this code runs so it's a simple
assignment, but if code order was to change it would have to be a call
to clocksource_change_rating().

There's an internal clocksource_override which I could use, but I'd have
to make it non-static.

Maybe John has thoughts?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04  6:19 [PATCH 1/2] lguest: handle dodgy/non-existent TSC. Host code Rusty Russell
2007-07-04  6:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] lguest: handle dodgy/non-existent TSC. Guest code Rusty Russell
2007-07-04  6:44   ` Tony Breeds
2007-07-04  8:10     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-07-05 15:37       ` john stultz
2007-07-05 17:56       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-04 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] lguest: handle dodgy/non-existent TSC. Host code Matt Mackall
2007-07-05  1:38   ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-05  6:41     ` Matt Mackall

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