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[37.24.206.209]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-57cf709b49dsm76051a12.49.2024.06.17.07.22.23 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fe6ef97-84f2-4bf4-870b-b0bb580fa38f@suse.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:22:21 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/xen/time: Reduce Xen timer tick To: Frediano Ziglio Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Boris Ostrovsky , Juergen Gross , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20240617141303.53857-1-frediano.ziglio@cloud.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Jan Beulich Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: <20240617141303.53857-1-frediano.ziglio@cloud.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17.06.2024 16:13, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > Current timer tick is causing some deadline to fail. > The current high value constant was probably due to an old > bug in the Xen timer implementation causing errors if the > deadline was in the future. > This was fixed in Xen commit: > 19c6cbd90965 xen/vcpu: ignore VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future And then newer kernels are no longer reliably usable on Xen older than this? > --- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ > #include "xen-ops.h" > > /* Minimum amount of time until next clock event fires */ > -#define TIMER_SLOP 100000 > +#define TIMER_SLOP 1000 It may be just the lack of knowledge of mine towards noadays's Linux'es time handling, but the change of a value with this name and thus commented doesn't directly relate to "timer tick" rate. Could you maybe help me see the connection? Jan