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Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/3Add serial key as a field to check for in dmi_name_in_vendors.drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c+2 -10 replies
2/3x86: Get TSC frequency from VMware hypervisor.arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c arch/x86/kernel/vmware.c +2 more+131 -24 replies
3/3x86: Improve TSC as a clocksource for VMware.arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c include/asm-x86/tsc.h+33 -20 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/3] Improve TSC as a clocksource under VMware

Hi,

This patch set makes some changes to the TSC code, so that it is always used as the default clocksource when running under VMware. The first 2 patches do the ground work of adding code to detect if we are running under VMware.
The third patch adds a tsc_reliable flag which tells us that TSC is reliable on this system, so that we can skip some tests which can potentially mark TSC as unstable. Details under individual patch headers.

Please have a look.

Thanks,
Alok

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