From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kvm PTP: drop TSC correction from ptp_kvm_gettime
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:31:39 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208133138.GA1126@amt.cnet> (raw)
The TSC correction in ptp_kvm_gettime was an attempt to handle
high load situations. Unfortunately it is incorrect because
userspace expects PTP clock reads to happen in the middle point
between realtime clock reads:
|* | | | | | | | | | | | |* | | | | | | | | | | | |* |
rt-read-1 ptp-clock-read-1 rt-read-2
The TSC correction causes the PTP clock reads to read the clock at:
|* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |* | | | | | | |* |
rt-read-1 ptp-clock-read-1 rt-read-2
So drop the TSC offset correction, increasing precision of synchronization
of an idle guest to <= 10ns.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_kvm.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_kvm.c
index 3ea41b8..994aa04 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_kvm.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_kvm.c
@@ -123,61 +123,21 @@ static int ptp_kvm_gettime(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, struct timespec64 *ts)
{
unsigned long ret;
struct timespec64 tspec;
- u64 delta, offset;
- unsigned version;
- int cpu;
- struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src;
spin_lock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
- preempt_disable_notrace();
- cpu = smp_processor_id();
- src = &hv_clock[cpu].pvti;
-
- do {
- /*
- * We are measuring the delay between
- * kvm_hypercall and rdtsc using TSC,
- * and converting that delta through
- * tsc_to_system_mul and tsc_shift
- * So any changes to tsc_to_system_mul
- * and tsc_shift in this region
- * invalidate the measurement.
- */
- version = pvclock_read_begin(src);
-
- ret = kvm_hypercall2(KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING,
- clock_pair_gpa,
- KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK);
- if (ret != 0) {
- pr_err_ratelimited("clock pairing hypercall ret %lu\n", ret);
- spin_unlock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
- preempt_enable_notrace();
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- }
-
- tspec.tv_sec = clock_pair.sec;
- tspec.tv_nsec = clock_pair.nsec;
-
- delta = rdtsc_ordered() - clock_pair.tsc;
- offset = pvclock_scale_delta(delta, src->tsc_to_system_mul,
- src->tsc_shift);
- } while (pvclock_read_retry(src, version));
-
- preempt_enable_notrace();
-
- spin_unlock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
-
- while (unlikely(offset >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
- tspec.tv_sec++;
- offset -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
+ ret = kvm_hypercall2(KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING,
+ clock_pair_gpa,
+ KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ pr_err("clock offset hypercall ret %lu\n", ret);
+ spin_unlock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
- tspec.tv_nsec = tspec.tv_nsec + offset;
- if (tspec.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
- tspec.tv_sec++;
- tspec.tv_nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
- }
+ tspec.tv_sec = clock_pair.sec;
+ tspec.tv_nsec = clock_pair.nsec;
+ spin_unlock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
memcpy(ts, &tspec, sizeof(struct timespec64));
next reply other threads:[~2017-02-08 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 13:31 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2017-02-08 13:59 ` [PATCH] kvm PTP: drop TSC correction from ptp_kvm_gettime Radim Krčmář
2017-02-08 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
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