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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Erratic gettimeofday() behavior with KVM and newer Linux kernels?
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:18:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4677E5B8.3070208@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4677E4BF.3060000-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> It's pretty erratic.  If I run if a few times at any rate, sometimes 
>>> I get 0.0 and sometimes I get a more sane result.
>>
>> I expect the newer kernel is sometimes disqualifying the timestamp 
>> counter from being used as a clocksource.   Running pinned to a cpu 
>> may improve things.
>
> Things get better if I disable the PM timer and if I pin to a single CPU.
>

Can you post the magic command line for future reference?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-19 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 21:13 Erratic gettimeofday() behavior with KVM and newer Linux kernels? Anthony Liguori
     [not found] ` <4676F587.8030802-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19  7:43   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <46778917.90803-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 14:14       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]         ` <4677E4BF.3060000-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 14:18           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]             ` <4677E5B8.3070208-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 14:31               ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]                 ` <4677E8D4.6010904-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 14:53                   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                     ` <4677EDF9.3000202-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 15:03                       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]                         ` <4677F04F.7070005-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 15:07                           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                             ` <4677F14C.8000701-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-19 15:14                               ` Anthony Liguori

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