Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-time: decreasing the rating of the xen clocksource below that of the tsc clocksource for dom0's

From: David Vrabel
Date: Tue Jan 20 2015 - 14:50:14 EST


On 13/01/15 08:14, Imre Palik wrote:
> From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In Dom0's the use of the TSC clocksource (whenever it is stable enough to
> be used) instead of the Xen clocksource should not cause any issues, as
> Dom0 VMs never live-migrated. The TSC clocksource is somewhat more
> efficient than the Xen paravirtualised clocksource, thus it should have
> higher rating.
>
> This patch decreases the rating of the Xen clocksource in Dom0s to 275.
> Which is half-way between the rating of the TSC clocksource (300) and the
> hpet clocksource (250).

Applied to devel/for-linus-3.20, thanks.

David
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