Re: [PATCH 1/2] keep guest wallclock in sync with host clock

[Avi Kivity]

On 09/02/2009 03:48 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > You can't prevent host preemption.  You might read kvmclock again and
> > repeat if too much time has passed.
> >      
> But then you can be scheduled after you did settimeofday, but before reading
> kvmclock again. Since we're aiming for periodic adjustments here,
> any discrepancies should not last long, so we can maybe live with it.
>    

do {
    read_kvmclock
    settimeofday
    read_kvmclock
} while the_difference_between_the_two_reads_is_too_large


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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