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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating

    * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

    > > if it's inaccurate why are you exposing it to the guest then? Native
    > > only uses the TSC if it's safe and accurate to do so.
    >
    > It is used as part of the Xen clocksource as a short term
    > extrapolator, with correction parameters supplied by the hypervisor.
    > It should never be used directly.

    that's totally broken then. You cannot create an SMP-safe monotonic
    clocksource via interpolation - native does not do it either. Good thing
    this problem got exposed, it needs to be fixed.

    Ingo
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