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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler
From: |
Glauber Costa |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:00:49 -0300 |
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Blue Swirl<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Glauber Costa<address@hidden> wrote:
>> guests without a stable timesource such as kvm-clock will grab the wallclock
>> from our rtc chip. However, we only sync the date when we first launch qemu.
>> If a guest goes through a series of reboot cycles, it will slowly see time
>> getting far behind the host.
>>
>> The proposal of this patch is to set the date to host clock again in the
>> reset
>> handler. With this patch, I see a Fedora guest keeping its clock in sync upon
>> an ulimited number of reboots.
>
> A different approach is used in m48t59.c: the guest clock is generated
> directly from host clock without any timers and only a fixed offset
You mean at every ioport read? I actually thought about that, but was
too lazy...
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- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Glauber Costa, 2009/09/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Blue Swirl, 2009/09/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler,
Glauber Costa <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Jan Kiszka, 2009/09/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Jan Kiszka, 2009/09/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Jan Kiszka, 2009/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Dor Laor, 2009/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Jan Kiszka, 2009/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Avi Kivity, 2009/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Jan Kiszka, 2009/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Avi Kivity, 2009/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] re-set rtc date on reset handler, Anthony Liguori, 2009/09/09