[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: mention domain <clock> improvements
Laine Stump
laine at laine.org
Tue May 18 03:50:26 UTC 2010
On 05/17/2010 05:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 03:27 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>
>>> + <dt><code>track</code></dt>
>>> + <dd>
>>> + The<code>track</code> attribute specifies what the timer
>>> + tracks, and can be "boot", "guest", or "wall".
>>> + Only valid for<code>name="rtc"</code>
>>> + or<code>name="platform"</code>.
>>>
>> Tough one. This doesn't tell people much about what they should be
>> choosing for "track", and hence isn't that useful. You may want to
>> add more about what this means. From what I can tell, it's actually
>> keeping track of how the RTC is getting updated. If it's set to "guest",
>> then it is always set relative to the number of guest cycles that have
>> passed. If it's set to "wall", it's relative to the actual time that
>> has passed from the host's POV. I'm not sure about "boot".
>>
> Now you see my quandary of why I asked for feedback! I'm documenting
> someone else's work, and getting lost in all the options. Laine, since
> you own the commit that added<timer>, would you care to lend a hand, so
> we can make this documentation useful? :-)
>
Actually, documenting that had bee on my to-do list, but constantly
slipped due to the fact that I wrote the code based on specs provided by
others, so I don't consider myself to be all that knowledgeable about
the "why" of things either! :-)
I'll gladly help with shaping it up further, but first need a few days
to get my dev environment back into shape and check on a pretty ugly bug
that still bothers me.
Thanks for tackling this, btw. I agree that your time so far was well spent.
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