Re: [PATCH v12 09/11] x86/tsc: prepare for early sched_clock

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 19:16:46 EST


On 06/28/2018 06:43 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> For enhanced fun the early calibration stuff was moved from right after
> init_hypervisor_platform() to the place where it is now in commit
> ccb64941f375a6 ("x86/timers: Move simple_udelay_calibration() past
> kvmclock_init()") to speed up KVM boot time by avoiding the PIT
> calibration. I have no idea why it wasn't just moved past the XEN
> initialization a few lines further down, especially as the change was done
> by a XEN maintainer :) Boris?

(Sorry for late response, I was out)


No good reason for that. I don't know what (whether?) I was thinking.

-boris