On Mon, Apr 25 2022 at 16:15, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 25/04/22 12:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> It's hillarious, that we still cling to this pvclock abomination, while
>> we happily expose TSC deadline timer to the guest. TSC virt scaling was
>> implemented in hardware for a reason.
>
> So you are talking about changing VMX TCS Offset on every VM-Entry to try to hide
> the time jumps when the VM is scheduled out? Or neglect that and just let the time
> jumps happen?
>
> If changing VMX TCS Offset, how can TSC be kept consistent between each VCPU i.e.
> wouldn't that mean each VCPU has to have the same VMX TSC Offset?
Obviously so. That's the only thing which makes sense, no?
Thanks,
tglx
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