Re: What's kvmclock's custom sched_clock for?

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2016-01-07 18:10-0200, Marcelo Tosatti:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Radim Krcmar wrote:
>> Stable sched clock is quite unrelated to TSC features.  KVMs from last
>> few years should always give good enough result to allow stable sched
>> clock.  We wanted realtime guests and realtime linux needs no_hz=full
>> that depends on stable sched clock.  The result is huge hack.
>> 
>> We'd need to say that migration creates powerful gravity fields to
>> faithfully migrate constant/invariant TSC, but stable sched clock
>> doesn't have that strict expectations about time.
> 
> Was that supposed to be a joke?

Yes, if you mean the first sentence of the second paragraph.
(I think that we'll use a different disclaimer when we enable
 best-effort migration with invariant TSC.)
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