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Peter Anvin" , Paolo Bonzini , Jonathan Corbet , Jim Mattson , Wanpeng Li , "open list\:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Sean Christopherson , open list , Ingo Molnar , "maintainer\:X86 ARCHITECTURE \(32-BIT AND 64-BIT\)" , Joerg Roedel , Borislav Petkov , Shuah Khan , Andrew Jones , Oliver Upton , "open list\:DOCUMENTATION" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: implement KVM_{GET|SET}_TSC_STATE In-Reply-To: References: <20201203171118.372391-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com> <20201203171118.372391-2-mlevitsk@redhat.com> <20201207232920.GD27492@fuller.cnet> <05aaabedd4aac7d3bce81d338988108885a19d29.camel@redhat.com> <87sg8g2sn4.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <6f64558a029574444da417754786f711c2fec407.camel@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 22:25:49 +0100 Message-ID: <878sa82dnm.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 08 2020 at 09:33, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:26 AM Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > IIRC we introduced mul_u64_u32_shift() for roughly this reason,but we > don't seem to be using it in the relevant code paths. We should be > able to use the same basic math with wider intermediates to allow very > large intervals between updates. That's 128 bit math and _NO_ we are not going there for various reasons. Hint1: There is a world outside of x8664 and TSC. Hint2: Even on x8664 and TSC it comes with performance overhead Thanks, tglx