On 09/25/2014 04:31 AM, zhang bo wrote:
> On 2014/9/24 19:49, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> I think the simplest fix for host-passthrough would be to apply the same
>> filter host-model has.
>>
>> But since using invtsc with host-passthrough requires both +invtsc and
>> migratable=no, so we'd need to either add a 'migratable' option to
>> host-passthrough (this would skip the filter and add migratable=on), or allow
>> fine-tuning the features for host-passthrough too.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>
> Additional to the 2 suggestions, will that be OK to remove the codes in
> qemuProcessVerifyGuestCPU that checks whether the vm->def has
> invtsc flag while qemu doesn't?
>
> - if (STREQ(feature->name, "invtsc") &&
> - !cpuHasFeature(guestcpu, feature->name)) {
> - virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
> - _("host doesn't support invariant TSC"));
> - goto cleanup;
> - }Without this check, the feature would be quietly discarded by QEMU if the host kernel or host CPU does not support this feature. I think it's better to leave "invtsc" out when we're generating the cpu definition for host-passthrough, as we do for host-model. Jan > > Removing these codes, plus with the solution that "add 'migratable' option > to host-passthrough", it seems the problem would > be gone, and invtsc would not be so 'distinctive' in libvirt any more. > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list >
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