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Message-Id: <20200305.172539.2236241791008844069.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:25:39 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: vithampi@...are.com
Cc: richardcochran@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Pv-drivers@...are.com,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, x86@...nel.org,
thellstrom@...are.com, jgross@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ptp: add VMware virtual PTP clock driver
From: Vivek Thampi <vithampi@...are.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:32:46 +0000
> Add a PTP clock driver called ptp_vmw, for guests running on VMware ESXi
> hypervisor. The driver attaches to a VMware virtual device called
> "precision clock" that provides a mechanism for querying host system time.
> Similar to existing virtual PTP clock drivers (e.g. ptp_kvm), ptp_vmw
> utilizes the kernel's PTP hardware clock API to implement a clock device
> that can be used as a reference in Chrony for synchronizing guest time with
> host.
>
> The driver is only applicable to x86 guests running in VMware virtual
> machines with precision clock virtual device present. It uses a VMware
> specific hypercall mechanism to read time from the device.
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Thampi <vithampi@...are.com>
Thanks for your explanation of why this is a reasonable driver, makes sense.
Applied to net-next.
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