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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Antoine Damhet <antoine.damhet@blade-group.com>, vkuznets@redhat.com
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Migration hv_time rollback
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:29:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200916112956.GE2833@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200916090602.blkm7eym6g5bnvvk@tartarus>

cc'ing in Vitaly who knows about the hv stuff.

* Antoine Damhet (antoine.damhet@blade-group.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are experiencing timestamp rollbacks during live-migration of
> Windows 10 guests with the following qemu configuration (linux 5.4.46
> and qemu master):
> ```
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host,kvm=off,hv_time [...]
> ```

How big a jump are you seeing, and how did you notice it in the guest?

Dave

> I have tracked the bug to the fact that `kvmclock` is not exposed and
> disabled from qemu PoV but is in fact used by `hv-time` (in KVM).
> 
> I think we should enable the `kvmclock` (qemu device) if `hv-time` is
> present and add Hyper-V support for the `kvmclock_current_nsec`
> function.
> 
> I'm asking for advice because I am unsure this is the _right_ approach
> and how to keep migration compatibility between qemu versions.
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> -- 
> Antoine 'xdbob' Damhet


-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16  9:06 [BUG] Migration hv_time rollback Antoine Damhet
2020-09-16 11:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2020-09-16 11:59   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-16 12:14     ` Antoine Damhet
2020-09-16 11:59   ` Antoine Damhet
2020-09-16 12:16     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-16 12:50       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-16 13:25         ` Antoine Damhet
2020-09-16 13:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-16 13:17     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov

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