[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] conf: add kvmclock timer

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Mon Jan 23 16:25:23 UTC 2012


On 01/23/2012 05:05 PM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
>> >  Add kvmclock timer to documentation, schema and parsers.  Keep the
>> >  platform timer first since it is kind of special, and alphabetize
>> >  the others when possible (i.e. when it does not change the ABI).
>
> Any chance the "clock" part in "kvmclock" is redundant since we're setting a
> timer? I'm not suggesting either way, I'm just asking whether it would make
> sense to name the new timer "kvm" instead of "kvmclock".

I think it's worthwhile to be consistent with the no-kvmclock and 
clock=kvm-clock kernel command line options.  Which are inconsistent 
between themselves. :)

Paolo




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