Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Sep 20 2019 - 06:23:25 EST


On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 20/09/19 08:27, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> > To do that, I am changing kvmclock to request to the host to copy
> > its timekeeping parameters (mult, base, cycle_last, etc), so that
> > the guest timekeeper can use the same values, so that time can
> > be synchronized between the guest and the host.
> >
> > Any suggestions or feedback would be highly appreciated.
>
> I'm not a timekeeping maintainer, but I don't think the
> kernel/time/timekeeping.c changes are acceptable.

Indeed. #ifdef WHATEVERTHEHECK does not go anywhere. If at all this needs
to be a runtime switch, but I have yet to understand the whole picture of
this.

Thanks,

tglx