diff options
| author | Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com> | 2012-02-03 15:43:54 -0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2012-03-08 14:10:06 +0200 |
| commit | 6f526ec5383dcd5fa5ffc7b3ac1d62099a0b46ad (patch) | |
| tree | 3493dcd8ee803f1c8c77dd505d02816b2fc449e3 /arch/x86/include | |
| parent | b183aa580a3a09b5d79224a9022418508532c778 (diff) | |
KVM: Add last_host_tsc tracking back to KVM
The variable last_host_tsc was removed from upstream code. I am adding
it back for two reasons. First, it is unnecessary to use guest TSC
computation to conclude information about the host TSC. The guest may
set the TSC backwards (this case handled by the previous patch), but
the computation of guest TSC (and fetching an MSR) is significanlty more
work and complexity than simply reading the hardware counter. In addition,
we don't actually need the guest TSC for any part of the computation,
by always recomputing the offset, we can eliminate the need to deal with
the current offset and any scaling factors that may apply.
The second reason is that later on, we are going to be using the host
TSC value to restore TSC offsets after a host S4 suspend, so we need to
be reading the host values, not the guest values here.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 8a34fca6c57..b23682900f4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch { u64 last_kernel_ns; u64 last_tsc_nsec; u64 last_tsc_write; + u64 last_host_tsc; bool tsc_catchup; bool tsc_always_catchup; s8 virtual_tsc_shift; |