Re: [Xen-users] Xen time drift issues

[Peter Booth <peter_booth@xxxxxxx>]

Priya,

What test are you using to  measure  the drift?
Are your VMs HVM or PVM?
What kernel version is your DomUs?

Do you have acpi enabled on any HVM DomUs?


On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Priya wrote:

> @tanuj: Thanks! I am not using NTP for syncing. The reason for that is
> that I want to get an idea of the fidelity of the time returned by
> domU and dom0 w.r.t. the actual real time. I expected to see a
> difference, but what is puzzling me is that the difference increases
> in such a linear fashion.
>
> @peter: As I mentioned in my previous email, the drift is ~50
> microseconds/second on domU and slightly less on dom0
>
> I have been trying to find some documentation pertaining to how Xen
> virtualizes the different hardware timers. If anyone has a link to
> such a technical report, please send me a link.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Priya
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Peter Booth<peter_booth@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > How are you measuring this drift?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Tanuj Bansal <bansal.tanuj83@xxxxxxxxx>  
> > wrote:
> > > Hi Priya:
> > >
> > > If you are using NTP, then shutdown the NTP service on all DomU and
> > > restart
> > > it on Dom0 only.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Tanuj Bansal
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Priya
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:55 PM
> > > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [Xen-users] Xen time drift issues
> > >
> > > Hello everyone!
> > >
> > > I been observing some peculiar time drift on my Xen domains (dom0  
> > > and
> > > domUs).  The time (as returned by timeofday) on my domains drifts at
> > > an almost steady rate from the real time ( as read from the time  
> > > stamp
> > > counter ).
> > >
> > > The drift is so constant that it makes me think there should be some
> > > simple explanation for it in the way Xen keeps time.
> > >
> > > Some info about my set up:
> > > guest OS: ubuntu
> > > independent_wallclock is set to default 0 on all domains
> > > no NTP synchronization
> > >
> > > The drift is around 50 microseconds / second on all the domains. Has
> > > anyone else observed this? If anyone can point me to some
> > > documentation that explains this behavior, that would be great!
> > >
> > > Good day!
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