VMware patches for Ubuntu

[Alok Kataria]

Hi Tim,

I had to give you a heads up on some patches that we would want you to
consider for your ubuntu hardy and intrepid tree.
These patches fix some of the TSC related bugs which occur only in a
virtualized environment. The reason they are important for VMware is
because we rely on TSC as the primary clocksource for timekeeping rather
than a paravirtualized clocksource.

So these patches are pretty important for correct timekeeping under
VMware.

Can you please pick these patches for the next kernel update/release.
They are in the x86 tree right now and should be merged during the
2.6.29 merge cycle.

Commit id's are

commit b2bcc7b299f37037b4a78dc1538e5d6508ae8110
commit 49ab56ac6e1b907b7dadb72a4012460359feaf0e
commit 88b094fb8d4fe43b7025ea8d487059e8813e02cd
commit eca0cd028bdf0f6aaceb0d023e9c7501079a7dda
commit 395628ef4ea12ff0748099f145363b5e33c69acb
commit 6bdbfe99916398dbb28d83833cc04757110f2738
commit fd8cd7e1919fc1c27fe2fdccd2a1cd32f791ef0f

These patches are discussed mainly on this thread,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/22/523

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Alok