Re: [RFC] Paravirt timer for KVM

Avi Kivity
2007-10-16T07:20:29Z

Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Host should know. Well, I hope. Dunno whenever one really can be sure
>> in all cases given all the different CPUs and tsc implementations.
>>
>
> In the same way we can be sure about hardware for everything else:
> Well... not being _quite_ sure ;-)
>
>

It's important to know. But in case the host knows the tsc doesn't
satisfy the feature's requirements, the host simply disables the feature.

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