On 10/13/2009 09:46 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:31:08PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/13/2009 03:28 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
Do we want an absolute or relative adjustment?
What exactly do you mean?
Absolute adjustment: clock = t
Relative adjustment: clock += t
The delta is absolute, but the adjustment in the clock is relative.
So we pick the difference between what userspace is passing us and what
we currently have, then relatively adds up so we can make sure we won't
go back or suffer a too big skew.
The motivation for relative adjustment is when you have a jitter
resistant place to gather timing information (like the kernel, which can
disable interrupts and preemption), then pass it on to kvm without
losing information due to scheduling. For migration there is no such
place since it involves two hosts, but it makes sense to support
relative adjustments.
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