Re: [RFC] Do clock adjustments over migration

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:08:16PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > This patch is a proposal only. Among other things, it relies on a patch
> > Juan is yet to send, and I also would want to give it a bit more testing.
> > It shows my indented use of the new ioctl interface I've been proposing.
> > 
> > First of all, we have to save the kvmclock msrs. This is per-cpu, and we
> > were failing to do it so far.
> > 
> > The ioctls are issued in pre-save and post-load sections of a new vmstate
> > handler. I am not doing it in the cpu vmstate handler, because this has to
> > be done once per VM, not cpu. What I basically do is to grab the time
> > from GET ioctl, pass on through migration, and then do a SET on the other
> > side. Should be straighforward.
> > 
> > Please let me hear your thoughts. And don't get me started with this
> > "you can't hear thoughts" thing!
> > 
> 
> Otherwise looks good.
> 
Also, note that, in vmstate table for kvmclock, I am using U64, instead of 
UINT64. This is unexistant on current qemu, I had to patch it.

Juan said he's planning on sending it to qemu-devel today or tomorrow.

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