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authorZachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>2012-02-03 17:43:51 (GMT)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-03-08 12:10:03 (GMT)
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KVM: Improve TSC offset matching
There are a few improvements that can be made to the TSC offset matching code. First, we don't need to call the 128-bit multiply (especially on a constant number), the code works much nicer to do computation in nanosecond units. Second, the way everything is setup with software TSC rate scaling, we currently have per-cpu rates. Obviously this isn't too desirable to use in practice, but if for some reason we do change the rate of all VCPUs at runtime, then reset the TSCs, we will only want to match offsets for VCPUs running at the same rate. Finally, for the case where we have an unstable host TSC, but rate scaling is being done in hardware, we should call the platform code to compute the TSC offset, so the math is reorganized to recompute the base instead, then transform the base into an offset using the existing API. [avi: fix 64-bit division on i386] Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> KVM: Fix 64-bit division in kvm_write_tsc() Breaks i386 build. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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