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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Jed Smith <jed@linode.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Runaway real/sys time in newer paravirt domUs?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:00:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3763AD020000780000A8B1@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2930D8D-5FD1-4C1C-AFEA-C9EB9192AD2C@linode.com>

>>> On 09.07.10 at 16:57, Jed Smith <jed@linode.com> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Is this perhaps also dependent on the CPU make/model?
>  - Between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30, /proc/uptime behaves much differently, and the 
> bug
>    then exposes itself.  Something changed there.

Others as well as me had seen similar misbehavior (outside of pv-ops),
but only on reasonably new Intel systems. sched_clock_stable getting
set to one in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c turned out to be the problem.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-06 16:32 Runaway real/sys time in newer paravirt domUs? Jed Smith
2010-07-06 19:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-06 20:20   ` Jed Smith
2010-07-08 16:38   ` Jed Smith
2010-07-09  8:46     ` Jan Beulich
2010-07-09 14:57       ` Jed Smith
2010-07-09 16:00         ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-07-13 21:10           ` Jed Smith
2010-07-14 16:31           ` Jed Smith

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