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DateThu, 27 May 2010 12:20:14 -1000
FromZachary Amsden <>
SubjectRe: Clock jumps
On 05/27/2010 12:12 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On 27.05.2010 23:53, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
> Hello Zachary,
>
>> I have server side fixes for this kvm-clock which seem to give me a
>> stable clock on this machine, but for true SMP stability, you will need
>> Glauber's guest side changes to kvmclock as well. It is impossible to
>> guarantee strictly monotonic clocksource across multiple CPUs when
>> frequency is dynamically changing (and also because of the C1E idle
>> problems).
>
> Is all this relevant only when the host is on TSC? Because I have seen
> these jumps when the host was on HPET and the guests were using
> kvm-clock.
>
> Anyway, can you send me both patches? I'd like to try it, but I have
> completely lost track where the up-to-date patches are.

There's more than two, there's quite a bit, I'll send it to the list soon.

Zach


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