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From: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
To: BRUNO CESAR RIBAS <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>,
	Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RHEL5.5, 32-bit VM repeatedly locks up due to kvmclock
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:21:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD22B67.6030800@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100423222135.GB18563@c3sl.ufpr.br>



On 04/23/2010 04:21 PM, BRUNO CESAR RIBAS wrote:
> 
> Could you try hpet? I had similar problem with multicore and multiCPU (per
> mother board) [even with constant_tsc].
> 
> Since I changed the guest to hpet i had no more problems.

It's stable in the sense of no lockups yet, but is a much slower time
source from a gettimeofday perspective compared to tsc and jiffies
(based on speed jiffies appears to be tsc-based).

David

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-23 17:08 RHEL5.5, 32-bit VM repeatedly locks up due to kvmclock David S. Ahern
2010-04-23 20:39 ` Brian Jackson
2010-04-23 21:39   ` Zachary Amsden
2010-04-23 21:42     ` David S. Ahern
2010-04-23 22:21       ` BRUNO CESAR RIBAS
2010-04-23 23:21         ` David S. Ahern [this message]
2010-04-24 18:40           ` Avi Kivity

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