=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 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.
Closing WONTFIX to match IBM status