From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>,
libvir-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] TSC frequency configuration & invtsc migration (was Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm: Allow migration with invtsc)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:50:48 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170105105046.GC6299@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170105104830.GB6299@amt.cnet>
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 08:48:32AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Note that even if we follow your suggestion and implement an
> > alternative version of patch 4/4 to cover your use case, I will
> > strongly recommend libvirt developers to support configuring TSC
> > frequency if they want to support invtsc + migration without
> > surprising/unpredictable restrictions on migratability.
>
> Well, alright. If you make the TSC frequency of the host
> available to mgmt software as you describe, and write the steps mgmt
> software should take, i'm good.
>
> Thanks for the help Eduardo.
>
I'll be happy to not have to add a weird script to
1. Query the host TSC frequency.
2. Pass that to -cpu xxx,tsc-frequency=ZZZ
To my migration scripts.
Probably easy to make that the default behaviour...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-05 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-27 19:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Allow migration with invtsc if there's no frequency mismatch Eduardo Habkost
2016-12-27 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] kvm: Simplify invtsc check Eduardo Habkost
2016-12-29 18:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2016-12-27 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] kvm: Allow invtsc migration if tsc-khz is set explicitly Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 11:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-04 11:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-04 13:40 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 13:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-04 13:51 ` Eduardo Habkost
2016-12-27 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] pc: Add 2.9 machine-types Eduardo Habkost
2016-12-30 13:38 ` Igor Mammedov
2017-01-04 14:01 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-01-04 14:20 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 16:40 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-01-04 17:46 ` Eduardo Habkost
2016-12-27 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: Allow migration with invtsc Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 11:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-04 13:39 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 19:59 ` [Qemu-devel] TSC frequency configuration & invtsc migration (was Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm: Allow migration with invtsc) Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-04 22:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-05 1:36 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-05 10:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-05 10:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2017-01-05 12:19 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-05 12:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrange
2017-01-05 12:48 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-05 13:00 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-01-05 13:11 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-10 16:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-06 10:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-08 15:49 ` [Qemu-devel] How to make dest host abort migration safely " Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-09 10:04 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-01-08 20:28 ` [Qemu-devel] Exporting kvm_max_guest_tsc_khz to userspace " Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-09 14:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-11 13:26 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-11 14:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-10 16:36 ` [Qemu-devel] TSC frequency configuration & invtsc migration " Paolo Bonzini
2017-01-11 11:58 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-01-18 11:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2017-01-18 12:43 ` Eduardo Habkost
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