On 04/27/2010 04:40 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:46:28PM -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
If the HV told us we can fully trust the TSC, skip any
correction
Please drop this. Its not certain what is the best method to reduce
contention on the global variable. Whatever it is, can be done later.
The problem is lead time. If we (or the cpu vendors) fix this in the
hypervisor/processors in a year, then we want existing guests to take
advantage of it immediately.
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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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