Bug 525521

Summary:	[LTC 5.5 FEAT] kvm hpet support [202011] - kernel portion of request
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.5	CC:	jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, virt-maint, xen-maint, ykaul
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	5.5
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	481160

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2009-09-24 17:30:35 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Stephanie A. Glass <sglass.com> - 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #55531 +++

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[202011]
a. Name of Feature:	kvm hpet support
b. Feature Description
Add hpet emulation to qemu and kvm

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	LTC
Architectures:
x86
x86_64

Arch Specificity: Both
Affects Kernel Modules: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Backport
Category:	Xen
Request Type:	Package - New
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	2
f. Severity: Medium
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	kvm-88, qemu

3. Business Case
Provide higher resolution timer to KVM guests.  HPET emulation provides more accurate and faster
timers for guest resulting in higher performance and better timer latency for certain workloads in
guests.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Stephanie Glass, sglass.com, 512-838-9284

Technical contact(s):
Ryan Harper, raharper.com

IBM Manager:
Warren Grunbok II, grunbok.com

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-10-07 11:30:44 UTC

------- Comment From bkon.com 2009-10-07 07:25 EDT-------
After realizing that the required base kernel capabilities needed to effectively utilize HPET (dyntick and clockevents) are not present in 2.6.18, we've decided to drop this feature request.

Comment 2 John Jarvis 2009-10-07 12:19:00 UTC

Closing WONTFIX to match IBM status