KVM: hyperv: support HV_X64_MSR_TSC_FREQUENCY and HV_X64_MSR_APIC_FREQUENCY
It has been experimentally confirmed that supporting these two MSRs is one of the necessary conditions for nested Hyper-V to use the TSC page. Modern Windows guests are noticeably slower when they fall back to reading timestamps from the HV_X64_MSR_TIME_REF_COUNT MSR instead of using the TSC page. The newly supported MSRs are advertised with the AccessFrequencyRegs partition privilege flag and CPUID.40000003H:EDX[8] "Support for determining timer frequencies is available" (both outside of the scope of this KVM patch). Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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