Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 09/10] x86/HVM: don't needlessly intercept APERF/MPERF/TSC MSR reads

2020-03-26 Thread Tian, Kevin
> From: Jan Beulich > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 8:37 PM > > If the hardware can handle accesses, we should allow it to do so. This > way we can expose EFRO to HVM guests, and "all" that's left for exposing > APERF/MPERF is to figure out how to handle writes to these MSRs. (Note > that the

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 09/10] x86/HVM: don't needlessly intercept APERF/MPERF/TSC MSR reads

2020-03-24 Thread Jan Beulich
If the hardware can handle accesses, we should allow it to do so. This way we can expose EFRO to HVM guests, and "all" that's left for exposing APERF/MPERF is to figure out how to handle writes to these MSRs. (Note that the leaf 6 guest CPUID checks will evaluate to false for now, as