From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@linux.intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Allow ARAT CPU feature
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 06:36:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5563F869.2070606@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150526013737.GA18142@ywang-linux>
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On 2015-05-26 03:37, Yong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:24:05PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>> On 24/05/2015 17:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>>
>>> There is no reason to deny this feature to guests. We are
>>> emulating the APIC timer, thus are exposing it without stops in
>>> power-saving states.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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>> Thanks, looks good.
>>
>
> What's the motivation of exposing ARAT to guests?
First of all, another step towards feature correctness for real CPU
models. But I also have a setup where Linux only has APICs as
clockevents (Jailhouse non-root cells), thus has no broadcast source. In
that case it depends on ARAT to switch to highres mode.
Jan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-24 15:22 [PATCH] KVM: x86: Allow ARAT CPU feature Jan Kiszka
2015-05-25 13:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-26 1:37 ` Yong Wang
2015-05-26 4:36 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
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