Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753688Ab1F3V4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:56:01 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52253 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753367Ab1F3Vz4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:55:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation From: Peter Zijlstra To: Glauber Costa Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Avi Kivity , Anthony Liguori , Eric B Munson In-Reply-To: <1309361388-30163-4-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> References: <1309361388-30163-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1309361388-30163-4-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:54:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1309470875.12449.611.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 571 Lines: 11 On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:29 -0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > + version: guest has to check version before and after grabbing > + time information and check that they are both equal and even. > + An odd version indicates an in-progress update. That's generally called a sequence count. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/