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    KVM: Infrastructure for software and hardware based TSC rate scaling · cc578287
    Zachary Amsden authored
    
    
    This requires some restructuring; rather than use 'virtual_tsc_khz'
    to indicate whether hardware rate scaling is in effect, we consider
    each VCPU to always have a virtual TSC rate.  Instead, there is new
    logic above the vendor-specific hardware scaling that decides whether
    it is even necessary to use and updates all rate variables used by
    common code.  This means we can simply query the virtual rate at
    any point, which is needed for software rate scaling.
    
    There is also now a threshold added to the TSC rate scaling; minor
    differences and variations of measured TSC rate can accidentally
    provoke rate scaling to be used when it is not needed.  Instead,
    we have a tolerance variable called tsc_tolerance_ppm, which is
    the maximum variation from user requested rate at which scaling
    will be used.  The default is 250ppm, which is the half the
    threshold for NTP adjustment, allowing for some hardware variation.
    
    In the event that hardware rate scaling is not available, we can
    kludge a bit by forcing TSC catchup to turn on when a faster than
    hardware speed has been requested, but there is nothing available
    yet for the reverse case; this requires a trap and emulate software
    implementation for RDTSC, which is still forthcoming.
    
    [avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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