Re: [PATCH] raise tsc clocksource rating

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Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> * Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> and just in case it's not obvious: i am not arguing for the inclusion of 
> the patch, i'm just pointing out the plain fact that in the case where 
> the TSC _is_ reliable, 5 different clocksource drivers for has obvious 
> disadvantages. Anyone arguing against that simple point needs his head 
> examined :) Once we can pass around calibration information from the 
> host to the guest (which we dont do at the moment) there will be reason 
> not to use the native clocksource driver in the guest.
If you sustain that we cannot have a reliable synchronization test
mechanism, neither do I. All this is based in the assumption that a bad
tsc will fail such tests.

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