Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] xen: maintain an accuratepersistent clock in more cases

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 03:52:45 EST


>>> On 31.05.13 at 01:55, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The first is probably the easiest, but I do want to make sure that Xen
> maintainers agree that Xen really needs to be special here compared to
> every other platform and always enforce the RTC is synced with system time.

Actually, during the v2 discussion I think we made clear that this
is not the goal: Sync-ing of the RTC should be just like native
does it. The only special thing Xen wants is that the hypervisor's
software wall clock wants to be kept up to date when NTP or
whatever else updates Dom0's wall clock.

Jan

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