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Message-ID: <4AD420A4.7050508@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:39:32 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
kurt.hackel@...cle.com, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@...citrix.com>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation
On 10/12/2009 09:13 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 10/12/09 11:29, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Good catch. Doesn't that invalidate rdtscp based vgettimeofday on
>> non-virt as well (assuming p == cpu)?
>>
> The tsc clocksource assumes the tsc is (mostly?) synced; it doesn't use
> rdtscp or make any attempt at per-cpu corrections.
>
So it's broken or disabled when that assumption is wrong? We could
easily fix that now. Might even reuse the pvclock structures.
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