Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 18:43:29 EST


On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Il 05/09/2014 23:24, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto:
> >
> >> > that besides acting as a workaround, I find the patched code easier to
> >> > understand, and I clearly stated the same in the tag message.
> > Well, we might have different opinions about easier to understand. I
> > did go a great length to distangle the monotonic boot time on which
> > you are interested from xtime, because the latter does not make any
> > sense outside of the core timekeeping code. Aside of that I optimized
> > the whole thing to avoid conversions, loops and hoops. So you just add
> > another multiply and add to make it more understandable.
>
> Fair enough, I've dropped the patch.

Though I agree that the struct member name choice is not the most
brilliant one, so feel free to fix that.

> Thanks for helping out with the core timekeeping fix.

I'm still banging my head against the wall....
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