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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4: kvm 1/4] Code motion. Separate timer intialization into an indepedent function.
On 09/29/2009 10:45 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/29/2009 11:38 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden<zamsden@redhat.com>
>
>
> Looks good.
>
> 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.

Zach


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