Rob Bradford 993ac5c90b vmm: cpu: Re-sync vCPU TSC offsets after restore ...

Restoring a snapshot (snapshot restore or live-migration receive) sets
each vCPU's TSC by writing MSR_IA32_TSC as the vCPU is created.

However because CpuManager creates and restores vCPUs one at a time, the
host TSC advances between the per-vCPU writes and KVM derives a slightly
different TSC offset for each vCPU.

KVM only engages its masterclock when every offset matches. This has a
side effect of breaking the HyperV TSC reference clock page resulting in
significantly reduced performance on Windows.

After restore synchronise all vCPU's TSC offset to the boot vCPU's via
the KVM_VCPU_TSC_CTRL device attribute group (Linux 5.16+) this allows
the KVM TSC masterclock to engage and mitigates performance issues with
the KVM HyperV emulation.

See: #8383

Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <rbradford@meta.com>
Assisted-by: Claude <claude-opus-4-8>

2026-06-22 20:13:22 +00:00

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vmm: cpu: Re-sync vCPU TSC offsets after restore

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build.rs

build: Add "fuzzing" as a valid cfg(..) attribute

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Cargo.toml

vmm: Make sev_snp depend on igvm

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