Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] xen: add steal_clock support on x86

From: David Vrabel
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 10:51:43 EST


On 20/05/16 08:26, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The pv_time_ops structure contains a function pointer for the
> "steal_clock" functionality used only by KVM and Xen on ARM. Xen on x86
> uses its own mechanism to account for the "stolen" time a thread wasn't
> able to run due to hypervisor scheduling.
>
> Add support in Xen arch independent time handling for this feature by
> moving it out of the arm arch into drivers/xen and remove the x86 Xen
> hack.

Applied for-linus-4.8, thanks.

David