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Re: [PATCH 02/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch

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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 2015-09-28 13:38+0800, Haozhong Zhang:
> > This patch moves the field of TSC scaling ratio from the architecture
> > struct vcpu_svm to the common struct kvm_vcpu_arch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > @@ -7080,6 +7080,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm,
> >  
> >  	vcpu = kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_create(kvm, id);
> >  
> > +	if (!IS_ERR(vcpu))
> > +		vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio = kvm_default_tsc_scaling_ratio;
> 
> This shouldn't be necessary, (and we can definitely do it without error
> checking later)
> 
>  kvm_arch_vcpu_create
>    (vmx|svm)_create_vcpu
>      kvm_vcpu_init
>        kvm_arch_vcpu_init
>          kvm_set_tsc_khz
> 
> sets vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio to something reasonable and SVM didn't
> overwrite that value.  (kvm_set_tsc_khz() only doesn't set the ration if
> this_tsc_khz == 0, which we could extend to be extra safe.)

Thanks Radim! I even didn't notice this path. I'll remove the ratio
setting in kvm_arch_vcpu_create(). In kvm_set_tsc_khz(), if
this_tsc_khz == 0, I'll make it set vcpu->arch.tsc_scaling_ratio to
kvm_default_tsc_scaling_ratio.

- Haozhong
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[PATCH 00/12] KVM: x86: add support for VMX TSC scaling Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH 07/12] KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc() Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH 11/12] KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH 06/12] KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset() Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 06/12] KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back  adjust_tsc_offset() Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-09-28 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 06/12] KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back  adjust_tsc_offset() Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH 01/12] KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/12] KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC  scaling ratio Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com> - 2015-09-29 05:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 01/12] KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC  scaling ratio Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-29 06:10 +0200
  [PATCH 02/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in  kvm_vcpu_arch Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-10-05 21:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 02/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in  kvm_vcpu_arch Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 04:00 +0200
  [PATCH 08/12] KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 08/12] KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to  compute time scale Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-10-05 22:20 +0200
  [PATCH 05/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH 03/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-09-28 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/12] KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-29 04:00 +0200
  [PATCH 10/12] KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-28 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-29 05:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2015-10-05 22:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> - 2015-10-05 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 06:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2015-10-06 12:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a  common function Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-10-06 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/12] KVM: x86: add support for VMX TSC scaling Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2015-09-29 06:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/12] KVM: x86: add support for VMX TSC scaling Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com> - 2015-09-29 06:10 +0200

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