From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Fix RTC noack issues
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:39:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385498358-10077-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> (raw)
This series allows the toolstack to choose (by way of XenStore platform flags)
whether the domain is expecting to make use of RTC mode noack performance
optimisations.
It also switches the implict default back to rtc_mode_strict, which is the
safe default for Xen to have.
This fixes a longstanding regression in Win2k3SP2 only where its access
pattern causes it to fall into an infinite loop reading RTC RegC.
Questions for thought:
* Does it make sense to allow customisation of ACPI_WAET_TIMER_ONE_READ ?
There is no sitation where an admin should turn it off.
* I believe this is safe wrt migrations, but am not certain enough to say for
sure. This is a critical point, as the bad default (and regression) has
been in Xen since late in the Xen-4.3 development cycle.
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1.7.10.4
next reply other threads:[~2013-11-26 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-26 20:39 Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-11-26 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/vRTC: Make rtc_mode_{strict, no_ack} a per-domain option Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 9:55 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-28 10:45 ` Tim Deegan
2013-11-26 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] hvmloader: Allow the toolstack to choose WAET optimisations Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 10:03 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 12:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 12:56 ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-27 12:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-29 9:53 ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-29 9:55 ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-29 10:57 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-29 11:01 ` Ian Campbell
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