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Subject: Re: invtsc + migration + TSC scaling
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2016-10-18 15:36+0200, Radim Krčmář:
> 2016-10-17 18:24+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
>> We should also blacklist the TSC deadline timer when invtsc is not
>> available.
> 
> True.
> 
> I was thinking that with Wanpeng's VMX preemption patches, we might not
> need the TSC nor paravirtual deadline timer, the because performance of
> LAPIC one-shot could be very similar.

No, I sent before thinking -- deadline timer also has better precision,
so it is still useful.