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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, pl@dlh.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] add support for Hyper-V invariant TSC
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:24 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130524194124.GA2888@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <278937736.7040157.1369390276708.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:11:16AM -0400, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
> > Is there a better option?
> > 
> If setting TscSequence to zero makes Windows fall back to the MSR this is a
> better option.
> 
> +1 
> This is why MS has two different mechanisms:
> iTSC as a primary, reference counters as a fall-back.

Ok, is it documented that transition

iTSC valid (Sequence != 0 and != 0xFFFFFFFF) -> 
iTSC not valid but ref MSR valid (Sequence = 0), 

is a valid transition?

It was not obvious for me. Can you point to documentation?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-19  7:06 [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Hyper-V timers Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-19  7:06 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] add support for Hyper-V reference time counter Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-19 13:47   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-19 14:37   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22  0:46   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-22  3:28     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-22  3:32       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-22  3:38         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-22 14:31           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-22  7:32     ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-22 21:55       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23  6:17         ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23  9:54           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23 10:45             ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23 12:25           ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 13:18             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23 13:20               ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23 13:23                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23 13:30                   ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23 13:40                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-19  7:06 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] add support for Hyper-V invariant TSC Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-22  0:50   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-22  7:22     ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-22 21:23       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-23  6:18         ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23  9:13           ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-23 13:35             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-23 15:14               ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-24  9:57               ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 12:33           ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 12:44             ` Peter Lieven
2013-05-23 12:45               ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-23 12:54               ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23  9:12         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-23 13:53           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-23 15:31             ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-24 10:11               ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-24 19:41                 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2013-05-27 12:33                   ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 12:21         ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 13:47           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-24 10:01             ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-05-23 16:44   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 10:16     ` Vadim Rozenfeld

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