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From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>,
	"Xen-Devel (xen-devel@lists.xensource.com)"
	<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@e>
Subject: RE: [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:36:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <681ea80b-75c6-41cc-a13d-3c7e25721f99@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C825A914.16417%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

> Linux doesn't make strong
> guarantees to applications about TSC semantics, by synthesising TSC, or
> anything like that.

Working on that ;-)  IMHO, any non-privileged use of rdtsc,
even under the control of the kernel (e.g. vsyscall) has
potential issues in a virtual machine.  Except a VMware
VM, where the problem is completely solved.

But, as you know, many Linux kernel developers aren't too
interested in solving problems for Xen, so there's an
uphill battle :-(

> Anyhow, retreading this argument is not going to be fruitful
> It's fair to
> say that your definition is now also Xen's definition.

Sorry, I'm not trying to beat a dead horse.  I'm just
playing whack-a-mole and repeating arguments for a
new audience and a new corner case.  If you prefer, I
can take that offlist.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 15:19 [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-26 15:45 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-26 16:44   ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-26 17:02     ` Ian Pratt
2010-05-26 17:29     ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-26 17:39       ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-26 17:51         ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-26 18:01         ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-26 19:46           ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-26 21:26             ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-27  6:15               ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-27  6:57                 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-27  7:09                   ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-27  7:15                   ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-27 19:55                     ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-27  8:44                 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-27  9:31                   ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-27 15:08                     ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-28  5:39                       ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-28  5:47                         ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-28  6:29                           ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-28  7:03                             ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-28 14:35                               ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-28 15:33                                 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-28 16:25                                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-31  8:56                                     ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-28 16:08                                 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-28 16:36                                   ` Dan Magenheimer [this message]
2010-05-28 17:19                                     ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-28 14:52                         ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-28 15:05                           ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-05-28 20:24                             ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-05-31  7:54                               ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-06-01  0:30                                 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-01  1:40                                   ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-06-01 17:07                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-02  9:17                                     ` Jiang, Yunhong
2010-06-10  6:55                         ` Dong, Eddie
2010-06-10 13:15                           ` Dan Magenheimer

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