Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752939Ab0HTRJA (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:09:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11253 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751467Ab0HTRI5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:08:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:08:49 -0300 From: Glauber Costa To: Zachary Amsden Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Thomas Gleixner , John Stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [KVM timekeeping 05/35] Move TSC reset out of vmcb_init Message-ID: <20100820170849.GC2937@mothafucka.localdomain> References: <1282291669-25709-1-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> <1282291669-25709-6-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282291669-25709-6-git-send-email-zamsden@redhat.com> X-ChuckNorris: True User-Agent: Jack Bauer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 17 On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:07:19PM -1000, Zachary Amsden wrote: > The VMCB is reset whenever we receive a startup IPI, so Linux is setting > TSC back to zero happens very late in the boot process and destabilizing > the TSC. Instead, just set TSC to zero once at VCPU creation time. > > Why the separate patch? So git-bisect is your friend. > > Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Shouldn't we set for whatever value the BSP already has, and then the BSP to zero? Since vcpus are initialized at different times, this pretty much guarantees that the guest will have desynchronized tsc at all cases (not that if it was better before...) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/