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[Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL RFC] pvclock cleanups and pvclock vsyscall sup

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL RFC] pvclock cleanups and pvclock vsyscall support
From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0900
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On 10/16/2009 04:46 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Care to cook up a patch to implement the kvm bits to make sure it all
works OK for you?

I've started to do that, but it occurs to me that we're missing out on NUMA placement by forcing all clocks to be on the same page. OTOH, if the clocks are heavily used, they'll stay in cache, and if not, who cares.

--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
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