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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ RfC / patch ] kvmclock fixes
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:38:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480C98CB.4000209@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480C9011.7080507@redhat.com>

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> +cycle_t pvclock_clocksource_read(struct kvm_vcpu_time_info *src)
> +{
> +	struct pvclock_shadow_time *shadow;
> +	cycle_t ret;
> +	unsigned version;
> +
> +	shadow = &get_cpu_var(shadow_time);
> +	do {
> +		version = pvclock_get_time_values(shadow, src);
> +		barrier();
> +		ret = shadow->system_timestamp + pvclock_get_nsec_offset(shadow);
> +		barrier();
>   

Is barrier() strong enough?  Does kvm guarantee that the per-cpu time 
parameters are only ever updated by that cpu?  I'm pretty sure Xen does, 
so that's OK.

    J

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07 11:53 paravirt clock stil causing hangs in kvm-65 Nikola Ciprich
2008-04-07 21:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-08  1:18   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-08  5:59     ` Nikola Ciprich
2008-04-19 15:29   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-19 16:22     ` Glauber Costa
2008-04-19 16:49       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-21  7:15         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-21  8:33           ` [ RfC / patch ] kvmclock fixes Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-21  9:57             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-21 13:01               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-04-21 13:38                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-04-24 13:20           ` paravirt clock stil causing hangs in kvm-65 Glauber Costa
2008-04-26 14:24             ` extmaillist
2008-04-19 16:29     ` Marcelo Tosatti

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