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Re: [Xen-devel] Time goes backwards in dom0 in xen-unstable

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel (E-mail)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Time goes backwards in dom0 in xen-unstable
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:41:12 +0100
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On 15/04/2009 00:31, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At that time, PIT will be only turned to
> on some old platform (then no deep C-state support) or weird
> BIOS not exporting HPET (then simply disable cpuidle).

Changeset 19545 now disables cpuidle by default if HPET broadcast is
unavailable. Obviously the PIT alternative is not up to being enabled by
default.

 -- Keir



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