Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:12:40 -0400 | From | Brian Bloniarz <> | Subject | gettimeofday() time warps on Nehalem |
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I've been using time-warp-test from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/ and have some confusing results. My machine is a IBM 3550M2 Nehalem box, kernel 2.6.30. time-warp-test.c finds time warps in gettimeofday() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). TEST_TSC does not find any timewarps from rdtsc.
Thought I'd ask Ingo & LKML before I dive deeper. Is this a kernel issue, time-warp-test issue, or a problem with my machine? Do you expect time-warp-test's TEST_TOD to pass on new kernels? I was under the impression that the TSC clocksource protected against time warps in gettimeofday().
Thanks, Brian Bloniarz
$ uname -a Linux lab5 2.6.30-nehalem #1 SMP Fri Jun 12 11:18:50 EDT 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ head -24 /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2266.822 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 4533.64 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
$ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource tsc
$ ./time-warp-test 16 CPUs, running 16 parallel test-tasks. checking for time-warps via: - gettimeofday (TOD) syscall (usec resolution)
new TOD-warp maximum: -1 usecs, 00046cb465acb046 -> 00046cb465acb045 new TOD-warp maximum: -2 usecs, 00046cb465ad7515 -> 00046cb465ad7513 TOD: 0.26us, fail:21534 \
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