|
From: | M. Warner Losh |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] set migration max downtime |
Date: | Sun, 24 May 2009 16:40:41 -0600 (MDT) |
In message: <address@hidden> Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes: : Anthony Liguori wrote: : >> I prefer seconds (and bytes). : > : > As a floating point value? : : Yes. More than enough spacecraft have been lost due to errors in unit : conversion. Floating point values don't have enough resolution to represent picosecond precision with a unix time-scale range. Had one bug where a system mysteriously stopped working after the unix epoch got big enough that it could no longer compute the differences between events with enough precision to have a stable PLL for the controlled signals... Warner
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |