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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][v4] PV extension of HVM(hybrid) support in Xen



On 03/01/2010 03:40 AM, Sheng Yang wrote:
The issue is pv timer. It assumed the tsc start from 0, which is different
from HVM. So I'd like to give it a explicit call here. Otherwise it can be
hooked in evtchn binding, but I don't think that's clear...

[...]
Only vcpu 0?  Doesn't this do horrible things to timekeeping in the guest?
The other vcpus are initialized when it is brought up. TSC started from 0 is a
fundamental assumption for pv clock in Linux...

Could you expand on this? Do you mean in the pvops Xen time code? What do you mean?

    J

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