Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:29 -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> +               version: guest has to check version before and after grabbing
> +               time information and check that they are both equal and even.
> +               An odd version indicates an in-progress update. 

That's generally called a sequence count.
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