On 18/11/2025 3:07 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: > Add a XEN infix, to properly distinguish it from the CPUID feature flag > (leaf 6 EAX bit 2). > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> > --- > Question is whether we still need opt_arat (and the command line option), > or whether we could go directly from the CPUID bit (overriding it to on > for older AMD [and Hygon?] CPUs). Or whether to have opt_arat affect the > (host) CPU policy directly.
I have no particular love for opt_arat. I added it when there was no way to force a system to fall back to an older timer. As long as we've got some way of configuring the exact timer to, I'm not fussed about keeping the top level boolean. ~Andrew
