Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: x86: Generate guest PV wall clock info from a single TSC read

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On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 15:25 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 
> Possibly silly question: why can't preemption simply be disabled for the duration
> of the sensitive calculation?

I suppose it can, but you should still be doing all this from a
*single* TSC read. You might get an interrupt, you might have time
stolen by SMM, or you might be an L1 guest hosting an L2 with nested
virt...

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