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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_OFFSET hypercall
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:15:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba417690-bee4-7495-e4f1-121624521462@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125130627.GB13444@amt.cnet>



On 25/01/2017 14:06, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>> Well you don't know: we could implement it in case of HPET clocksource
>>> hosts.
>> But then the guest wouldn't have a TSC value to use, would it?
>>
>> Also, how would it use more padding?
> I don't know, maybe pass the TSC and host HPET read in the structure? 
> (after exposing the HPET to the guest).
> 
> Or maybe you want to sync CLOCK_MONOTONIC and that requires other data.
> 
> Not sure.
> 
> Just some space if new features are necessary.

Fair enough.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-25 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 17:09 [patch 0/4] KVM virtual PTP driver (v5) Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-24 17:09 ` [patch 1/4] KVM: x86: provide realtime host clock via vsyscall notifiers Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-25 12:30   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-24 17:09 ` [patch 2/4] KVM: x86: add KVM_HC_CLOCK_OFFSET hypercall Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-25 12:30   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-25 12:55     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-25 12:59       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-25 13:06         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-25 13:15           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-01-24 17:09 ` [patch 3/4] kvmclock: export kvmclock clocksource pointer Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-24 17:09 ` [patch 4/4] PTP: add kvm PTP driver Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-24 18:11   ` Richard Cochran
2017-01-25 12:56   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-25 13:03     ` Marcelo Tosatti

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