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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: Update xen-tscmode.pod.7 to reflect default TSC mode changes
A number of changes have been made to how we determine whether TSC
is emulated (e.g. commit 4fc380ac0077 ("x86/time: don't use virtual TSC
if host and guest frequencies are equal")).
Update the man page to reflect those changes
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/man/xen-tscmode.pod.7 | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/man/xen-tscmode.pod.7 b/docs/man/xen-tscmode.pod.7
index 0da57e5..0f93453 100644
--- a/docs/man/xen-tscmode.pod.7
+++ b/docs/man/xen-tscmode.pod.7
@@ -203,12 +203,12 @@ The default mode (tsc_mode==0) checks TSC-safeness of the
underlying
hardware on which the virtual machine is launched. If it is
TSC-safe, rdtsc will execute at hardware speed; if it is not, rdtsc
will be emulated. Once a virtual machine is save/restored or migrated,
-however, there are two possibilities: For a paravirtualized (PV) domain,
-TSC will always be emulated. For a fully-virtualized (HVM) domain,
-TSC remains native IF the source physical machine and target physical machine
-have the same TSC frequency; else TSC is emulated. Note that, though
-emulated, the "apparent" TSC frequency will be the TSC frequency
-of the initial physical machine, even after migration.
+however, there are two possibilities: TSC remains native IF the source
+physical machine and target physical machine have the same TSC frequency
+(or, for HVM/PVH guests, if TSC scaling support is available); else TSC
+is emulated. Note that, though emulated, the "apparent" TSC frequency
+will be the TSC frequency of the initial physical machine, even after
+migration.
For environments where both TSC-safeness AND highest performance
even across migration is a requirement, application code can be specially
--
2.7.4
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