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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Houston, we have May 15, 1953 (says guest when host uses cpufreq, and dies)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:20:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499D2460.60201@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499D232A.7040206@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann schrieb:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Are you suggesting that one should use cpufreq on a CPU without a
>> constant tsc?  Isn't this just asking for trouble?
> 
> Depends on the (guest) clock source ;)
> 
> tsc isn't going to do well obviously.
> 
> kvmclock is designed to handle tsc frequency changes just fine.
> And with the kvm-84 kernel module it actually works correctly.

So with Linux virtio guests I may have luck, but not so with Windows, 
which can't (yet?) use kvm-clock. Correct?
(it may be some time before I'm able to upgrade and check how it really 
works).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 14:51 Houston, we have May 15, 1953 (says guest when host uses cpufreq, and dies) Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-18 16:11   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 16:59     ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-18 17:02       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 20:37       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-19  9:15         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-19  9:20           ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2009-02-19 10:27             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-02-18 18:46 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 18:53   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 18:57     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 19:07       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 19:10         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 19:18           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 19:32             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18 20:02               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-02-18 20:03                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-19 14:43                   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-07 14:59       ` Tomasz Chmielewski

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