Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Allow ARAT CPU feature

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On 2015-05-26 03:37, Yong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>> On 24/05/2015 17:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>> There is no reason to deny this feature to guests. We are
>>> emulating the APIC timer, thus are exposing it without stops in
>>> power-saving states.
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>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Thanks, looks good.
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> 
> What's the motivation of exposing ARAT to guests?

First of all, another step towards feature correctness for real CPU
models. But I also have a setup where Linux only has APICs as
clockevents (Jailhouse non-root cells), thus has no broadcast source. In
that case it depends on ARAT to switch to highres mode.

Jan

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