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[Xen-devel] Re: TSC scaling and softtsc reprise, and PROPOSAL

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel (E-mail)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: TSC scaling and softtsc reprise, and PROPOSAL
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:29:30 +0100
Cc: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx>, John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 23/07/2009 16:18, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I've informally heard that certain version of the JVM and
>> Oracle Db have a habit of pounding rdtsc hard from user
>> space, but I don't know what rates.
> 
> Indeed they do and they use it for timestamping
> events/transactions, so these are the very same
> apps that need to guarantee SMP timestamp ordering.

Why would you expect host TSC consistency running on Xen to be worse than
when running on a native OS?

 -- Keir



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