Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Hyper-H reference counter

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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:05:38AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/05/2013 08:37, Vadim Rozenfeld ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 16:45 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Il 16/05/2013 16:26, Vadim Rozenfeld ha scritto:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Yes, I have this check added in the second patch.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Move it here please.
> >>>>>>> OK, will do it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Or better, remove all the handling of HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC from this
> >>>>> patch, and leave it all to the second.
> >>>>>
> >>> What for? Could you please elaborate?
> >
> > To make code reviewable.  Add one MSR here, the other in the second patch.
> > removing HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC will make this particular patch
> > completely non-functional.
> 
> Do you mean Windows guest will BSOD or just that they won't use the
> reference TSC?  If the latter, it's not a problem.
> 
I think it is. If reference counter works without TSC we have a bisect
point for the case when something will going wrong with TSC.

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