Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mask cpuid TSC invariant bit for various circumstances (Take 2)

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/11/2009 21:50, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mask cpuid TSC invariant bit for some circumstances
> and expose it for others.  On upstream Linux kernels,
> non-zero Invariant TSC bit permanently selects TSC
> as the clocksource (currently on Intel only).  When
> these kernels run on Xen, when migration is possible
> and TSC is unemulated, this can cause much weirdness.
> But exposing non-zero Invariant TSC has performance
> advantages so we want to expose it when it is safe.
> (Note leaving it exposed/unexposed for dom0 is not an
> issue.)

I think I pushed you into changing this in a way I like even less. :-) I can
live with your original patch, so I'll check that in after all.

 -- Keir



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