linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements

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Message-ID: <48C02A33.20808@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:34:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	akataria@...are.com
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>,
	Garrett Smith <garrett@...are.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements

Alok Kataria wrote:
> 
> In the long run though, I think to get rid of all this complexity, we
> can think of getting the frequency from the hypervisor. Lets see, i will
> try making a patch maybe early next week and send it for the x86 tree.
> 

That should go along with a paravirtualized (virtio) timesource.

	-hpa
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