RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Adjust time init sequence

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:05 PM
>
>On 11/12/2008 00:47, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I guess not, due to same reason as why I sent out 1st patch idle
>> vcpu state entry. The point is the current TSC value, which count
>> from power on and is translated to a dozens of seconds for elapsed
>> time upon a zero tsc stamp. :-( I didn't realize that point 
>in the start...
>
>Ah, because it's set up in early_time_init().
>
>By the way, instead of avoiding NOW() early on, could we just set
>local_tsc_stamp in early_time_init()? Then we could use NOW() when
>initialising idle VCPUs, and also early on in init_xen_time()?
>
>We could set stime_platform_stamp = NOW() too, so that platform time is
>kicked off following BP's time.
>
>I could send a patch which I find tasteful if you think this 
>could work? :-)
>

Sure, I think that should work too. :-)

Thanks,
Kevin
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