From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: RE: xen tsc problems?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:32:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <756423e2-fa59-4f9e-bc17-e0d6ff575197@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C862761F.1A95B%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 12:59 PM
> To: Stefano Stabellini; Dan Magenheimer
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen tsc problems?
>
> On 13/07/2010 19:14, "Stefano Stabellini"
> <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> >> /me wonders if timer_mode=1 is the default for xl?
> >> Or only for xm?
> >
> > no, it is not.
> > Xl defaults to 0, I am going to change it right now.
>
> Possibly we should make timer_mode=1 the default in Xen as well, and
> actually disallow setting it to 0. Clearly no good comes of it.
IIRC from >2 years ago, timer_mode=0 was best for older HVM 32-bit
Linux guests. Obviously if the code (interacting with the tsc code)
has bit-rotted, "best" is a relative term. :-)
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-13 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 14:37 xen tsc problems? Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-13 14:43 ` Keir Fraser
2010-07-13 15:37 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-07-13 17:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-13 17:48 ` Keir Fraser
2010-07-13 18:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-07-13 18:14 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-13 18:59 ` Keir Fraser
2010-07-13 19:32 ` Dan Magenheimer [this message]
2010-07-13 18:12 ` Keir Fraser
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