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From: Felix Leimbach <felix.leimbach@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: strange guest slowness after some time
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:49:51 +0100
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Does idle=poll help things?  It can cause tsc breakage similar to 
> cpufreq.
On the host, right? Can't test that as I cannot reboot the server.
Is tsc breakage still s.th. to watch out after I've upgraded to the 
Shanghai quadcores?