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SubjectRe: [KVM timekeeping 08/35] Warn about unstable TSC
On 08/20/2010 07:28 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:07:22PM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>> If creating an SMP guest with unstable host TSC, issue a warning
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden<zamsden@redhat.com>
>>
> Ok, I am not sure I agree 100 % this is needed.
> I believe we should try to communicate this kind of thing to the guest,
> not the host, and through cpuid.
>
> Passing through tsc flags to the guest should maybe be enough?
>

I found a better way to deal with this later in the series... the theory
being if the full series doesn't get backported to supported releases,
at least we'll get a warning.


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