>> I like it ;) I have some comments (and a reworked patch at the end): >> > >And thanks a lot for that. > >> >> Plus, in this way you change the behaviour from "always try RTC under >> Linux" to "don't use RTC is dynticks is enabled". >> Is this what you really want? > >I don't know whether this is what should be done, but it's what I >wanted. >I was not looking for a dynamic-ticks solution for every available time >source, and considered the system's POSIX timer as a good enough source. >Am I wrong here?
Using dyn-tick should be the default option. Not only it saves ticks for guests with HZ < 1000, it improves the accurency and responsiveness of the system. There are also issues with [EMAIL PROTECTED] because of HPET inteference.
