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RE: [Xen-devel] Ping: Timer ISR backwards notices

To: "Jared Rhine" <jared@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Ping: Timer ISR backwards notices
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:05:04 -0000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Ping: Timer ISR backwards notices
I think it's fair to say that we don't care about "Time went backwards"
messages when running on vmware.

Xen uses the local APIC timer by default, and uses the PIT only on
extreme legacy hardware (and vmware).

Ian 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jared Rhine
> Sent: 10 January 2005 17:33
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Ping: Timer ISR backwards notices
> 
> > I'm getting a lot of "Timer ISR: Time went backwards" printk's,
> > presumably thrown by xen's arch time.c (line 395 in
> > do_timer_interrupt).
> > 
> > Is there some info I can provide to the team about this condition?
> 
> This is a quick ping about this issue, if indeed there is anything
> meaningful to say about this issue.
> 
> I noticed 
> 
> 
>  in case more information was actually desired
> 
> 
> >   I
> > imagine there's little I or the Xen team could do about this.  But
> > perhaps this alert is in there essentially as an assertion and
> > developers are very interested in this situation. 
> > 
> > Otherwise, given that the box seems to run fine otherwise 
> (except for
> > presumably poor time resolution), I feel like shutting this up.  Are
> > there any approaches to managing xen's printk or perhaps I 
> should just
> > maintain a local patch to comment out this notice?
> > 
> > Platform is an old vmware 4.
> > 
> > -- jared@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > "Tiger gotta hunt.  Bird gotta fly.
> >  Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
> >  Tiger gotta sleep.  Bird gotta land.
> >  Man gotta tell himself he understand." -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
> > 
> -- 
> Jared Rhine <jared@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 
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