Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/07/2009 10:48 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > We can support them by falling back to the kernel.  I'm a bit worried
> > about the kernel playing with the hypervisor's version field.  It's
> > better to introduce yet a new version for the kernel, and check both.
> >      
> On Nehalem, apps that need timestamp information at a high
> frequency will likely use rdtsc/rdtscp directly.
>
>    

Then they will get incorrect timing once they are live migrated.

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