Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:41 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Skip tsc synchronization checks if CONSTANT_TSC bit is set. |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > In the field they will just continue using clock=pit, like they > always did on vmware. And also they will not update the Linux kernel. >
That is a totally bogus assumption. You will typically have the host platform (Vmware in this case) move much much slower than the guests.
> This is strictly for new installations. And I frankly don't > see why Linux needs to get white listed workarounds when the > Hypervisor couldn't as well be fixed. We have the bizarre > situation here where a HV vendor tries to add workarounds > to Linux instead of fixing it on their products.
... just like every other hardware vendor.
-hpa
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