From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
kurt.hackel@oracle.com, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
zach.brown@oracle.com, chris.mason@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACD0333.9060603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0b89573-bec7-45dc-b21d-a51f498c2e0c@default>
On 10/07/2009 10:48 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> We can support them by falling back to the kernel. I'm a bit worried
>> about the kernel playing with the hypervisor's version field. It's
>> better to introduce yet a new version for the kernel, and check both.
>>
> On Nehalem, apps that need timestamp information at a high
> frequency will likely use rdtsc/rdtscp directly.
>
>
Then they will get incorrect timing once they are live migrated.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
kurt.hackel@oracle.com, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
zach.brown@oracle.com, chris.mason@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:08:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACD0333.9060603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0b89573-bec7-45dc-b21d-a51f498c2e0c@default>
On 10/07/2009 10:48 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> We can support them by falling back to the kernel. I'm a bit worried
>> about the kernel playing with the hypervisor's version field. It's
>> better to introduce yet a new version for the kernel, and check both.
>>
> On Nehalem, apps that need timestamp information at a high
> frequency will likely use rdtsc/rdtscp directly.
>
>
Then they will get incorrect timing once they are live migrated.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-06 0:50 [PATCH RFC] Extending pvclock down to usermode for vsyscall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/pvclock: make sure rdtsc doesn't speculate out of region Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/pvclock: no need to use strong read barriers in pvclock_get_time_values Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 9:04 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-06 9:04 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-06 14:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-06 14:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-06 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-06 15:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-06 18:46 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 18:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 10:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 10:25 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 19:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 19:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 20:09 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 20:09 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 21:19 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 21:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 21:37 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 21:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 21:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 21:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-07 21:53 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 21:53 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 20:48 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-07 20:48 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-07 21:08 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-07 21:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-07 22:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-07 22:36 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-10 0:24 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-10 0:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-10 18:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-10 18:10 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 18:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-12 18:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-12 18:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 18:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 19:13 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-12 19:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-13 6:39 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-13 6:39 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-13 20:00 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-13 20:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-14 12:32 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-14 12:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-15 19:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-15 19:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-27 17:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-27 17:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-27 18:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-27 18:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-28 5:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-28 5:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-28 9:29 ` [Xen-devel] " Glauber Costa
2009-10-28 9:34 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-28 9:34 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-28 17:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-28 17:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-29 12:13 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 12:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 13:03 ` [Xen-devel] " Chris Mason
2009-10-29 13:03 ` Chris Mason
2009-10-29 14:46 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-29 14:46 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-29 15:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 15:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-29 15:55 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-29 15:55 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-29 16:15 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-29 16:15 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-01 9:28 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-11-01 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-02 15:28 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-02 15:28 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-02 15:41 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-11-02 15:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-01 9:32 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-11-01 9:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-02 15:46 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-02 15:46 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-03 5:12 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-11-03 5:12 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-04 20:30 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-04 20:30 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-05 6:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 6:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-05 14:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-05 14:52 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-05 15:07 ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2009-11-05 15:07 ` Keir Fraser
2009-11-04 21:19 ` [Xen-devel] " john stultz
2009-11-04 21:19 ` john stultz
2009-11-04 21:28 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-04 21:28 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-05 0:02 ` [Xen-devel] " john stultz
2009-11-05 0:02 ` john stultz
2009-11-05 0:45 ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-11-05 0:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-30 23:30 ` pvclock implementation in pv_ops kernel: why not __native_read_tsc()? Dan Magenheimer
2009-10-31 1:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/fixmap: add a predicate for usermode fixmaps Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 10:23 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-10-06 10:23 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-06 18:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 18:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] xen/time: add pvclock_clocksource_vread support Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 10:28 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-10-06 10:28 ` Jan Beulich
2009-10-06 18:48 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-06 18:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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