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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] x86/vdso: Add VCLOCK_HVCLOCK vDSO clock read method
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:27:18 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702131023190.3619@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR03MB266952220A7E1FA0F2D38453BF590@MWHPR03MB2669.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@linutronix.de]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 02:02
> >  ...
> > That's important if the stuff happens cross CPU. If the update happens on
> > the same CPU then this is a different story and as there are VMexits
> > involved they might provide the required ordering already. But I can't tell
> > as I have no idea how that host side thing is done.
> > 
> 
> IMO Hyper-V TSC page clocksource here seems pretty similar to KVM's pvclock,
> So I would guess "the structure is only updated just before reentering the guest
> after some VM event" (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/kvm-pvclock/),
> that is, the update should happen on the same CPU, I guess.

Guessing does not help much. There are a gazillion ways to implement such a
thing. I'm sure that there exists proper documentation of the mechanism
inside your company.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-13  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170209141052.18694-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
2017-02-09 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] hyperv: implement hv_get_tsc_page() Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-02-09 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/vdso: Add VCLOCK_HVCLOCK vDSO clock read method Vitaly Kuznetsov
     [not found] ` <20170209141052.18694-3-vkuznets@redhat.com>
2017-02-09 17:08   ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702091806400.3604@nanos>
2017-02-09 18:27     ` Stephen Hemminger via Virtualization
2017-02-10 12:25       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-02-10 12:28         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-10 16:31           ` Stephen Hemminger via Virtualization
     [not found]           ` <BLUPR0301MB2098E1283D42BD2C3772D839CC440@BLUPR0301MB2098.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
2017-02-10 18:01             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-13  7:49               ` Dexuan Cui via Virtualization
2017-02-13  9:27                 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-02-13 19:06                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-13 19:28                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 20:45     ` KY Srinivasan via Virtualization
     [not found]     ` <DM5PR03MB24903D71121176FFAED30E33A0450@DM5PR03MB2490.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
2017-02-09 22:55       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-09 23:15         ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-10 12:15         ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-02-10 11:06     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2017-02-10 11:15       ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found] ` <20170209141052.18694-2-vkuznets@redhat.com>
2017-02-09 18:24   ` [PATCH 1/2] hyperv: implement hv_get_tsc_page() Stephen Hemminger via Virtualization
2017-02-09 20:14     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 23:17       ` Stephen Hemminger

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