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* Re: A clocksource question
@ 2010-03-12 11:42 Tobias Geiger
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From: Tobias Geiger @ 2010-03-12 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel

Hi,

i think i have the same Dom0 Problems as Joanna.

My setup is:
Xen 4.0.0-rc3-pre with some GFX-Passthrough Patches (btw: works great!)
with "vtd=1 dom0_max_vcpus=6 iommu=pv" as cmdline for xen

Dom0 Kernel is currently 2.6.33 using rebased Opensuse xen-patches (xen-
patches-2.6.33-1)

I also get - a slightly different - hrtimer message , but only in my Dom0 (as i 
have only Windows HVM as DomU)

"hrtimer: interrupt took 2951458 ns"

This message seems to appear when my DomU is booting.

"clocksource=jiffies" as Dom0-Parameter doesn't help.
"max_cstate=0" as xen Parameter doesn't seem to help either.
The Patch from http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-
devel/2010-03/msg00570.html doesn't seem to help.

My "Hiccups" occur - felt - "randomly", they take from 1 up to 5 seconds (not 
messured, more felt) and the only thing moving on the screen during that is 
the mouse pointer. If it weren't for the moving pointer one could think the 
Maschine is completly frozen.

The "Hiccups" are ONLY in the Dom0, its even so that i can perfectly work in 
the DomU, even when one of these long-term-hiccups occur.

That all just in case another "affected" system my help you in your analsysis 
of this strange behaviour.

Tell me if i can help testing.

Greetings
Tobias

P.S.: Sorry for the non-threaded Follow-up, but i just subscribed to the 
list...

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* A clocksource question
@ 2010-03-09 10:47 Joanna Rutkowska
  2010-03-09 10:50 ` Keir Fraser
  2010-03-09 23:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 42+ messages in thread
From: Joanna Rutkowska @ 2010-03-09 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com


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I would appreciate if somebody could shed some light on the currently
preferred setting of the clocksource for the pvops0 kernels, used both
in Dom0 and DomU (I'm using pvops0 in DomU because it provides backends,
e.g. network backend).

I have a bad experience with running the Dom0 kernel
(xen/stabale-2.6.31.6-based) with the default clocksource=xen, as it
results in the system getting temporary "hangs", very short ones, but
annoying. E.g. when one types fast on a keyboard, then every 10 seconds
or so, the keystroke processing seems to be slowing down significantly
for a second o so.

Running the kernel with clocksource=jiffies eliminates the above problem
but has a disadvantage of the clock drift in Dom0. This is not
acceptable on my setup, where I don't have any networking in Dom0, which
means I cannot correct it via NTP.

Interestingly the above problem didn't seem to affect the Dom0 kernel
based on xen/stable-2.6.32. Unfortunately I assume I'm no longer able to
run this kernel when using Xen 3.4.2.

Thanks,
joanna.


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2010-03-09 10:50 ` Keir Fraser
2010-03-09 10:54   ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-09 11:06     ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-09 12:07       ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-03-09 12:10         ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-09 15:42       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-09 23:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-10 22:13   ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-11  0:07     ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-03-11  0:15       ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-11  0:21       ` Ian Pratt
2010-03-11  0:44         ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-03-12  0:34           ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-11  0:52         ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-11  1:06           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-11  1:19             ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-11  4:55               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-11 10:49                 ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12  0:27                 ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12  0:49                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-12  0:38                     ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12 19:02                       ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12 21:24                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-12 21:56                           ` Tobias Geiger
2010-03-12 22:02                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-12 21:01                               ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12 21:13                                 ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-12 23:48                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-13  9:58                                     ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-13 19:30                                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-15  6:49                                         ` Tobias Geiger
2010-03-16  6:01                                         ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-17 13:35                                           ` Tobias Geiger
2010-03-17 15:21                                             ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-17 16:20                                             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-17 17:05                                               ` Joanna Rutkowska
2010-03-17 17:21                                                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-03-17 16:26                                             ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-03-12 22:56                               ` Tobias Geiger
2010-03-11  7:47     ` Keir Fraser

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