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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: tip.today - scheduler bam boom crash (cpu hotplug)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:35:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227203549.GA6500@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104576579.26276825.1488222387110.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 02:06:27PM -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > +	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC))
> > > +		mark_tsc_unstable("not invariant");
> > 
> > Errm, no.
> > 
> > That makes TSC unusable for systems which do not go into C/P states in
> > which the TSC stops. There is a world outside KVM ....
> 
> Actually I was surprised too by Peter's patch, as it was adding
> mark_tsc_unstable pretty much everywhere that didn't have nonstop TSC.
> But hopefully it would still be okay to call clear_sched_clock_stable
> in tsc_init, in the same way.

I was preserving the sched_clock behaviour. That said, maybe we can
simply remove all those extra checks and only rely on the current
mark_tsc_unstable() calls.

I'll just have to sit down and consider the various cases..

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-27 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-19  7:31 tip.today - scheduler bam boom crash (cpu hotplug) Mike Galbraith
2017-01-19 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-19 11:39   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-01-19 13:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-19 16:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-19 17:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-19 20:35     ` sched/clock: Fix hotplug issue kbuild test robot
2017-01-19 20:37     ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-20  6:36     ` [tip:sched/core] sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 12:30     ` tip.today - scheduler bam boom crash (cpu hotplug) Wanpeng Li
2017-02-27 12:35       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 12:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 12:50         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 13:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 15:27             ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 15:59               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 16:11                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 16:36                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 17:27                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 17:40                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-27 19:06                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-02-27 20:35                           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-02-28  1:51                   ` Wanpeng Li
2017-02-28  8:08                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-28  8:11                       ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-01 13:39                         ` Wanpeng Li
2017-03-01 14:17                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-27 13:48         ` Wanpeng Li
2017-02-27 14:05           ` Peter Zijlstra

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