Re: proposal: stop using the xen_system_time timecounter in dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:38:13PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:59:01 +0200, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: proposal:  stop using the xen_system_time timecounter in dom0
> >
> > it is perfectly reliable for me. In my case I'm not sure (really)
> > that other sources would be better.
> 
> I've shown clearly that it is not always reliable without (what would
> otherwise be unnecessary) workarounds (dom0_vcpus_pin=true in my case,
> and perhaps even with that workaround it is still not 100% reliable).

There is an implicit "in my case" after "would be better"

I acknoledge that on some hardware it's not working reliably; we need to
find how to deal with it (and a good starting point would be to see how
other OSes deal with it)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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