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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, "Dugger,
	Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>,
	"Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Live migration fails due to c/s 20627
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B287BDF.8020308@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562bba8c-64a3-4876-b0ff-ae9349c76d3c@default>

On 12/15/2009 08:14 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> My argument is simply that if TSC_AUX cannot ALWAYS
> be trusted by an application, apps will NEVER trust it.
> And if apps NEVER trust it, why expose it at all?
>    

The cpu/node info is only of heuristic value anyway; it is never 
trustworthy in an absolute sense.  Apps just use it to try to optimise 
their own memory allocation and use patterns, but they can't rely on 
that info for actual correctness.

     J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-16  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-14 18:02 Live migration fails due to c/s 20627 Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-14 23:19 ` Keir Fraser
2009-12-15  4:40   ` Xu, Dongxiao
2009-12-15 15:56     ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-15 16:10       ` Xu, Dongxiao
2009-12-15 16:31         ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-15 17:08         ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-15 18:04           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2009-12-16  2:07           ` Nakajima, Jun
2009-12-16  2:43           ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-12-16  4:14             ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-16  5:07               ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-12-16 16:23                 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-16 17:38                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-16  6:19               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-12-16 15:20                 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-16 17:31                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-15 17:12         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-15 17:24           ` Xu, Dongxiao
2009-12-15 18:25             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-12-15 19:20               ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-15 19:31                 ` Keir Fraser
2009-12-15 19:52                   ` Keir Fraser
2009-12-16 15:41                 ` Andre Przywara
2009-12-16 16:54                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-12-15 19:25               ` Keir Fraser
2009-12-15 18:05     ` Xu, Dongxiao

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