Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: add support of kvm-clock stablity in L2

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2017-07-10 15:25+0200, Radim Krčmář:
> 2017-06-28 13:55+0300, Denis Plotnikov:
> > Get rid of complex shadow monotonic timekeeper support in KVM.
> > Extend and use timekeeper infrastructure instead.
> > 
> > Make kvm-clock stable in L2 using the changed timekeeper
> 
> I see this patch as two logical changes:
> 
>   1) refactoring that drops host time caching (gtod)
>   2) stable kvmclock for L2 when L1 is using kvmclock
> 
> Doing it in two patches would definitely be nicer and would allow us to
> focus on the (less controversial) L2 enablement.

I just realized that (2) has more complex dependency on (1): we'd need
extra code to get boot_ns from TSC via kvmclock, so deciding the
refactoring first was a good call.



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