Virtualization - Apr 2022 - [PATCH V2 03/11] perf/x86: Add support for TSC in nanoseconds as a perf event clock

On Mon, Apr 25 2022 at 16:15, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 25/04/22 12:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> It's hillarious, that we still cling to this pvclock abomination,
while
>> we happily expose TSC deadline timer to the guest. TSC virt scaling was
>> implemented in hardware for a reason.
>
> So you are talking about changing VMX TCS Offset on every VM-Entry to try
to hide
> the time jumps when the VM is scheduled out?  Or neglect that and just let
the time
> jumps happen?
>
> If changing VMX TCS Offset, how can TSC be kept consistent between each
VCPU i.e.
> wouldn't that mean each VCPU has to have the same VMX TSC Offset?
Obviously so. That's the only thing which makes sense, no?

Thanks,

        tglx