linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

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Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:45:57 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

Il 05/09/2014 23:24, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto:
> 
>> > that besides acting as a workaround, I find the patched code easier to
>> > understand, and I clearly stated the same in the tag message.
> Well, we might have different opinions about easier to understand. I
> did go a great length to distangle the monotonic boot time on which
> you are interested from xtime, because the latter does not make any
> sense outside of the core timekeeping code. Aside of that I optimized
> the whole thing to avoid conversions, loops and hoops. So you just add
> another multiply and add to make it more understandable. 

Fair enough, I've dropped the patch.

Thanks for helping out with the core timekeeping fix.

Paolo
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