From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Julien Desfossez <ju@klipix.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing host TSC from a guest kernel
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:36:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9F2246.209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9C11C7.70202@klipix.org>
On 09/24/2010 04:49 AM, Julien Desfossez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to access the host TSC from the inside of a guest kernel and I
> don't really know if it's possible.
>
> I'm working with kvm_clock and I have been playing with the
> pvclock_vcpu_time_info structure, but I'm not sure if I'm in the right
> direction.
>
> So could you tell me if there is an efficient way to access to access
> the host TSC (or at least the TSC_OFFSET) from a module inside a guest
> kernel ?
>
> I did it with an hypercall, but it's for tracing purpose and doing an
> hypercall every time I want to record an event, is way too costly.
>
>
It isn't possible. If you need a coherent host/guest timestamp, I
suggest using ktime_get().
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-24 2:49 Accessing host TSC from a guest kernel Julien Desfossez
2010-09-26 10:36 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-09-26 11:02 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
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