On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:51:22PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > When we migrate we ask the kernel about its current belief on what the guest > time would be. However, I've seen cases where the kvmclock guest structure > indicates a time more recent than the kvm returned time. > > To make sure we never go backwards, calculate what the guest would have seen > as time at the point of migration and use that value instead of the kernel > returned one when it's more recent. > > While this doesn't fix the underlying issue that the kernel's view of time > is skewed, it allows us to safely migrate guests even from sources that are > known broken. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> OK Alexander better move this logic to the kernel, in KVM_GET_CLOCK. Otherwise every user of KVM_GET_CLOCK would have to apply the workaround. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
