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

[Zachary Amsden]

On 08/20/2010 07:28 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 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?
>    

I found a better way to deal with this later in the series... the theory 
being if the full series doesn't get backported to supported releases, 
at least we'll get a warning.
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