linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4: kvm 1/4] Code motion. Separate timer intialization into an indepedent function.

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Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:56:02 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4: kvm 1/4] Code motion.  Separate timer intialization
 into an indepedent function.

On 09/30/2009 05:51 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> Is anything preventing us from unifying the constant_tsc and !same 
>> paths?  We could just do a quick check in the notifier, see the tsc 
>> frequency hasn't changed, and return.
>
>
> Actually, yes.  On constant_tsc processors, the processor frequency 
> may still change, however the TSC frequency does not change with it.
>
> I actually have both of these kinds of processors (freq changes with 
> constant TSC and freq changes with variable TSC) so I was able to test 
> both of these cases.

If the API allows us to query the tsc frequency, it would simply return 
the same values in all cases, which we'd ignore.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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