VMware patches for Ubuntu

[Tim Gardner]

Alok Kataria wrote:
> 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
> 

I'm quite reluctant to apply these patches to an LTS kernel without your
assurance that they've been well tested on 2.4.24. How about 2.6.27?

rtg
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