On 04/20/2010 11:54 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 04/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:People are reporting weirdnesses that "clocksource=jiffies" apparently
On 04/20/2010 02:31 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:Did you observe drift on Xen, or is this "ultimately" pointing at the
btw, do you want this code in pvclock.c, or shall we keep it kvmclockI think its a pvclock-level fix. I'd been hoping to avoid having
specific?
something like this, but I think its ultimately necessary.
future?
resolves. Xen and KVM are faced with the same hardware constraints, and
it wouldn't surprise me if there were small measurable
non-monotonicities in the PV clock under Xen. May as well be safe.