WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix the slow wall clock time issue in x64 SMP Vi

To: "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix the slow wall clock time issue in x64 SMP Vista
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:36:51 +0000
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:36:35 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <666CC8FCE3247C4DA876BA979059781A5C2889@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: Acc0qpECUWE/uVerTTS+WkRpZ1GU0QAAQ2zN
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix the slow wall clock time issue in x64 SMP Vista
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620
On 10/1/07 11:29, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In x64 SMP Vista HVM guest (vcpus=2 in the configuration file), the wall
> clock time is 50% slower than that in the real world. The attached patch
> fixes the issue.

Looks like this code will inject fewer HPET interrupts. How does that make
time go *faster*?

Also, looking at hpet_timer_fn() is vcpu_kick() actually required? The PIC
logic invoked from hpet_route_interrupt() should do any required kicking.

 -- Keir


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel