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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: nVMX: Fully emulate preemption timer
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:33:58PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> We cannot rely on the hardware-provided preemption timer support because
> we are holding L2 in HLT outside non-root mode. 

> Furthermore, emulating
> the preemption will resolve tick rate errata on older Intel CPUs.

Can you describe this in more detail please? Errata number?