Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

2019-09-24 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:23 PM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 20/09/19 08:27, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > > To do that, I am changing kvmclock to request to the host to copy > > > its timekeeping parameters (mult, base, cycle_last, etc), so that > >

Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

2019-09-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 20/09/19 08:27, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > To do that, I am changing kvmclock to request to the host to copy > > its timekeeping parameters (mult, base, cycle_last, etc), so that > > the guest timekeeper can use the same values, so that time can > >

Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

2019-09-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/09/19 08:27, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > To do that, I am changing kvmclock to request to the host to copy > its timekeeping parameters (mult, base, cycle_last, etc), so that > the guest timekeeper can use the same values, so that time can > be synchronized between the guest and the host. > >

[RFC 0/2] kvm: Use host timekeeping in guest.

2019-09-19 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
This RFC is to try to solve the following problem: We have some applications that are currently running in their own namespace, that still talk to other processes on the machine, using IPC, and expect to run on the same machine. We want to move them into a virtual machine, for the usual benefits