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Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 
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

It will be automatically in qemu. We'll test it for correctness.
If you have additional info validating it's stability today it will be helpful.

On RHEL-6, the KVM userspace package is named "qemu-kvm". Moving bug to the right component.

The feature is included but not tested enough. Unless we'll get reports that the hpet is stable on all supported guests and does not drift, we'll need to use -no-hpet flag by default.