Re: [PATCH 2/2] hyperv: Implement Time Synchronization using host time sample

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Tue Oct 14 2014 - 12:31:07 EST


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:33:46PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
>
> IMHO, you should let the guest steer its own clock. That gives the end
> user the most flexibility. Just provide the offset information, and
> let a dedicated service (like ntpd or linuxptp's phc2sys) do the rest.

So if it really about the convenience of not having to run a service
on the guests, then why not expose the guest clock to the host as a
dynamic posix clock? Then you could use phc2sys to tune the guest
without writing even a line of servo code...

Thanks,
Richard
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/