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Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when L2 guest is running

From Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when L2 guest is running
Date 2016-07-06 07:40 +0200
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Cc Jan,
2016-07-06 13:10 GMT+08:00 Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>:
> A different VMCS is loaded when L2 guest is running, so it's incorrect
> to use the VMX preemption timer for L1 TSC deadline timer. This patch
> switches to hrtimer for L1 TSC deadline timer when entering L2 guest,
> and switches back to VMX preemption timer when nested VMEXIT from L2 to
> L1.

Nested preemption timer is emulated by hrtimer, so it doesn't
influence vmcs02, why this is needed?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

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[PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when L2 guest is running Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 07:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-06 07:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 08:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 08:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 09:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 10:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 10:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 10:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: switch to hrtimer for TSC deadline timer when  L2 guest is running Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 10:30 +0200

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