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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com, jeremy@goop.org, glommer@parallels.com,
	zamsden@gmail.com, gleb@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com,
	pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: [patch 00/18] pvclock vsyscall support + KVM hypervisor support (v2)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:13:40 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121024131340.742340256@redhat.com> (raw)

This patchset, based on earlier work by Jeremy Fitzhardinge, implements
paravirtual clock vsyscall support.

It should be possible to implement Xen support relatively easily.

It reduces clock_gettime from 500 cycles to 200 cycles
on my testbox.

Please review.

>From my POV, this is ready to merge.

v2: 
- Do not allow visibility of different <system_timestamp, tsc_timestamp> 
tuples.
- Add option to disable vsyscall.




             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 13:13 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 01/18] KVM: x86: retain pvclock guest stopped bit in guest memory Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 02/18] x86: pvclock: make sure rdtsc doesnt speculate out of region Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 03/18] x86: pvclock: remove pvclock_shadow_time Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  9:23   ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-30  9:24     ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 04/18] x86: pvclock: create helper for pvclock data retrieval Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 05/18] x86: pvclock: fix flags usage race Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 06/18] x86: pvclock: introduce helper to read flags Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 07/18] sched: add notifier for cross-cpu migrations Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 08/18] x86: pvclock: generic pvclock vsyscall initialization Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 14:18   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-29 14:54     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 17:46       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-10-29 14:39   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 09/18] KVM: x86: introduce facility to support vsyscall pvclock, via MSR Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 14:45   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-29 17:44     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-10-29 18:40       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  7:41         ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-30  9:39         ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-31  3:12           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02 10:21             ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-30  7:38       ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 10/18] x86: kvm guest: pvclock vsyscall support Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 11/18] x86: vsyscall: pass mode to gettime backend Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 14:47   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-29 18:41     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  7:42       ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 12/18] x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 14:59   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-29 18:42     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  7:49       ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31  3:16         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 13/18] KVM: x86: pass host_tsc to read_l1_tsc Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-29 15:04   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-29 18:45     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  7:55       ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 14/18] time: export time information for KVM pvclock Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-10  1:02   ` John Stultz
2012-11-13 21:07     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 15/18] KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-30  8:34   ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31  3:19     ` [patch 15/18] KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag\ Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 16/18] KVM: x86: notifier for clocksource changes Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 17/18] KVM: x86: add kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate callback, move TSC initialization Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-24 13:13 ` [patch 18/18] KVM: x86: require matched TSC offsets for master clock Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:46 ` [patch 00/16] pvclock vsyscall support + KVM hypervisor support (v3) Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:46   ` [patch 01/16] KVM: x86: retain pvclock guest stopped bit in guest memory Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 10:39     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-11-01 20:51       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 13:44     ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 22:46   ` [patch 02/16] x86: pvclock: make sure rdtsc doesnt speculate out of region Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 11:48     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-11-01 13:49       ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-01 13:51         ` Gleb Natapov
2012-11-01 20:56         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 22:13           ` Gleb Natapov
2012-11-01 22:21             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02  6:02               ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-31 22:46   ` [patch 03/16] x86: pvclock: remove pvclock_shadow_time Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 13:52     ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 04/16] x86: pvclock: create helper for pvclock data retrieval Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:04     ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-01 20:57       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 05/16] x86: pvclock: introduce helper to read flags Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:07     ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-01 21:08       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 06/16] sched: add notifier for cross-cpu migrations Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:08     ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 07/16] x86: pvclock: generic pvclock vsyscall initialization Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:19     ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 08/16] KVM: x86: introduce facility to support vsyscall pvclock, via MSR Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:28     ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-01 21:39       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02 10:23         ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-02 13:00           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-05  8:03             ` Glauber Costa
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 09/16] x86: kvm guest: pvclock vsyscall support Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02  9:42     ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-05  8:35       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 10/16] x86: vdso: pvclock gettime support Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-01 14:41     ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-01 21:42       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02  0:33         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-11-02 10:25           ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-14 10:42     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-11-14 22:42       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 11/16] KVM: x86: pass host_tsc to read_l1_tsc Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 12/16] time: export time information for KVM pvclock Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 13/16] KVM: x86: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT pvclock flag Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 14/16] KVM: x86: notifier for clocksource changes Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 15/16] KVM: x86: add kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate callback, move TSC initialization Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-31 22:47   ` [patch 16/16] KVM: x86: require matched TSC offsets for master clock Marcelo Tosatti

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