Re: Clock jumps

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 27.05.2010 23:53, Zachary Amsden wrote:

Hello Zachary,

> I have server side fixes for this kvm-clock which seem to give me a
> stable clock on this machine, but for true SMP stability, you will need
> Glauber's guest side changes to kvmclock as well. It is impossible to
> guarantee strictly monotonic clocksource across multiple CPUs when
> frequency is dynamically changing (and also because of the C1E idle
> problems).

Is all this relevant only when the host is on TSC? Because I have seen 
these jumps when the host was on HPET and the guests were using kvm-clock.

Anyway, can you send me both patches? I'd like to try it, but I have 
completely lost track where the up-to-date patches are.

Bernhard
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