On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sigh, I heard the same idea from a company called Huawei, they applied > the patent for the idea. Seriously? What arseholes. Also, calling that an invention is a bit of a joke. It's called the VMX *preemption* timer. Using it for preemption isn't exactly rocket science. Neither is passing an MSR straight through. That being said, the lack of scaling and offset support is indeed problematic.