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Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH] x86: apic: add physical broadcast test
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:23:09 +0100
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2016-12-22 11:02+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 19/12/2016 17:04, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> Broadcast to address 0xff is not exercised by seabios+linux so we better
>> test it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  The bounded wait loop is bad ... time to introduce TSC magic?
> 
> Yeah, the VMX tests already use the TSC (though in the other direction:
> they check that _at least_ some time passed).  Roughly speaking, 1
> billion TSC units should be plenty, even on a loaded hosts.

I will convert it, thanks.