[libvirt] [PATCH 4/5] cpu_x86: Probe TSC frequency and scaling support

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri May 31 12:00:10 UTC 2019


When the host CPU supports invariant TSC the host CPU definition created
by virCPUx86GetHost will contain (unless probing fails for some reason)
addition TSC related data.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
---
 src/cpu/cpu_x86.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c b/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
index cb03123787..689b6cdaf5 100644
--- a/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
+++ b/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
@@ -2762,6 +2762,15 @@ virCPUx86GetHost(virCPUDefPtr cpu,
     ret = x86DecodeCPUData(cpu, cpuData, models);
     cpu->microcodeVersion = virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion();
 
+    /* Probing for TSC frequency makes sense only if the CPU supports
+     * invariant TSC (Linux calls this constant_tsc in /proc/cpuinfo). */
+    if (virCPUx86DataCheckFeature(cpuData, "invtsc") == 1) {
+        VIR_DEBUG("Checking invariant TSC frequency");
+        cpu->tsc = virHostCPUGetTscInfo();
+    } else {
+        VIR_DEBUG("Host CPU does not support invariant TSC");
+    }
+
  cleanup:
     virCPUx86DataFree(cpuData);
     return ret;
-- 
2.21.0




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