Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] clocksource/hyperv: use MSR-based access if running as root

From: Wei Liu
Date: Thu Nov 12 2020 - 10:52:22 EST


On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:30:57PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the missing commit message I'd like to see why we don't use 'TSC
> page' clocksource for the root partition. My guess would be that it's
> not available and actually we're supposed to use raw TSC value (because
> root partitions never migrate) but please spell it out.

See my exchange with Daniel.

Wei.