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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] timekeeping: sync persistent clock and RTC on system time step changes
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:26:14PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 15/05/13 19:10, John Stultz wrote:
> >
> > Ok, so really, as soon as the Dom0 time is set by NTP, all guests will
> > see the right time? That makes more sense, and means the window for
> > these sorts of issues is reasonably quite small.
>
> It's a small window but it's occurring in our automated test system.
>
> > David: So I'm less inclined to merge this individual change, but if you
> > still feel strongly about it, let me know and we can circle around on it
> > after you've addressed the specific issues I pointed out earlier.
>
> This patch was the actual bug fix but I've reworked it to use the
> pvclock_gtod notifier chain as this seemed to be what KVM hosts were
> using to maintain a clock for guests. Please review the new series, thanks.

Looks good.

John if you are OK I am thinking to push this to Linus shortly as it is
fixing a bug.

>
> David


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