Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm: x86: Emulate MSR_PLATFORM_INFO

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Il 05/06/2013 10:42, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>> > These patches add an emulated MSR_PLATFORM_INFO that kvm guests
>> > can read as described in section 14.3.2.4 of the Intel SDM. 
>> > The relevant changes and details are in [2/2]; [1/2] makes vendor_intel
>> > generic. There are atleat two known applications that fail to run because
>> > of this MSR missing - Sandra and vTune.
> So I really want Intel opinion on this. Right now it is impossible to
> implement the MSR correctly in the face of migration (may be with tsc
> scaling it will be possible) and while it is unimplemented if application
> tries to use it it fails, but if we will implement it application will
> just produce incorrect result without any means for user to detect it.

Jun, ping?  (Perhaps Gleb you want to ask a more specific question though).

I don't think this is much different from any other RDTSC usage in
applications (they will typically do their calibration manually, and do
it just once).  I'm applying it to queue.

Paolo
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