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On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 02:02:36PM +0000, Jack Allister wrote:
> The reasoning behind this is that you may want to run a guest at a
> lower CPU frequency for the purposes of trying to match performance
> parity between a host of an older CPU type to a newer faster one.

That's quite ludicrus. Also, then it should be the host enforcing the
cpufreq, not the guest.