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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: common time reference between domU and dom0
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:41:44 +0100
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On 12/10/2010 09:27 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Urk.  Paolo, I hope Redhat isn't using HVMOP_get_time now as a basis
> for pvops time?

No.  I only plan to use it in Windows guests.  That said...

> That was one of the purposes of all the tsc work
> in 4.0 so selecting TSC as the clocksource should have the same
> result (and IIRC the trap is faster than the hypercall).

... this has not been backported to RHEL5 though.

Paolo