Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:03:39 -0500 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > > Xen, for example, uses the tsc as the principle timebase in the > > hypervisor interface. [...] > > ugh. Please take it from me: i've watched the Linux time code walk its > long, rocky 10+ years road. One of the first mistakes was when we made > the TSC the center of the i386-time universe. (incidentally, it was me > who did the first steps of that, as a rookie kernel hacker) We got cured > out of that in v2.6.19, v2.6.20 and v2.6.21. Granted, Xen is only at the > beginning of that same road. Meet in another 10 years? ;)
What do you suggest instead ?
(Digging into this for lguest now...)
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