2016-10-18 15:36+0200, Radim Krčmář: > 2016-10-17 18:24+0200, Paolo Bonzini: >> We should also blacklist the TSC deadline timer when invtsc is not >> available. > > True. > > I was thinking that with Wanpeng's VMX preemption patches, we might not > need the TSC nor paravirtual deadline timer, the because performance of > LAPIC one-shot could be very similar.
No, I sent before thinking -- deadline timer also has better precision, so it is still useful.
