Re: [KVM timekeeping 08/35] Warn about unstable TSC

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 - 13:28:41 EST


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:07:22PM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> If creating an SMP guest with unstable host TSC, issue a warning
>
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ok, I am not sure I agree 100 % this is needed.
I believe we should try to communicate this kind of thing to the guest,
not the host, and through cpuid.

Passing through tsc flags to the guest should maybe be enough?
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