Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i386/kvm: advertise Hyper-V frequency MSRs

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On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:50:53PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:56:59AM +0200, Ladi Prosek wrote:
> > This is the QEMU part of the changes required for nested Hyper-V to read
> > timestamps with RDTSC + TSC page. Without exposing the frequency MSRs,
> > Windows with the Hyper-V role enabled use the much slower
> > HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT (0x40000020) RDMSR to read timestamps.
> > 
> > The new registers are exposed only if the TSC frequency is stable across
> > migration and known, as suggested by Paolo.
> > 
> > v1->v2:
> > * deleted an extra empty line in patch 1
> > * added patch 3 introducing a helper function for the "TSC is stable and
> >   known" check (David)
> > 
> > Ladi Prosek (4):
> >   i386/kvm: use a switch statement for MSR detection
> >   i386/kvm: set tsc_khz before configuring Hyper-V CPUID
> >   i386/kvm: introduce tsc_is_stable_and_known()
> >   i386/kvm: advertise Hyper-V frequency MSRs
> > 
> >  target/i386/kvm.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.9.3
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>

Come again please?

> 



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