On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 02:43:59PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Nested Hyper-V/Windows guest running on top of KVM will use TSC page
> clocksource in two cases:
> - L0 exposes invariant TSC (CPUID.80000007H:EDX[8]).
> - L0 provides Hyper-V Reenlightenment support (CPUID.40000003H:EAX[13]).
> 
> Exposing invariant TSC effectively blocks migration to hosts with different
> TSC frequencies,

I wonder if TSC scaling on the destination host doesn't allow to relax
this requirement?

> providing reenlightenment support will be needed when we
> start migrating nested workloads.
> 
> Implement rudimentary support for reenlightenment MSRs. For now, these are
> just read/write MSRs with no effect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  4 ++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c           | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 12 +++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rka...@virtuozzo.com>

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