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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Canet <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] KVM guest cpu L3 cache and cpufreq
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Hi,

I noticed that the l3 cache size of a guest /proc/cpuinfo is not the same=
 as
the l3 cache size of the host.

I did not found any references to this in the qemu and KVM code.

Is the size of the guest L3 cache fixed in hardware ?

Can a patch be written to set it ?

Similarly I noticed that the frequency in the guest was not reflecting th=
e
frequency scaling of the host.

Could anything be done for this ?=20

Best regards

Beno=EEt