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[Xen-devel] Re: Live migration fails due to c/s 20627

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Live migration fails due to c/s 20627
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:19:11 -0800
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx, "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx>, "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>, "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 12/15/2009 08:14 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
My argument is simply that if TSC_AUX cannot ALWAYS
be trusted by an application, apps will NEVER trust it.
And if apps NEVER trust it, why expose it at all?

The cpu/node info is only of heuristic value anyway; it is never trustworthy in an absolute sense. Apps just use it to try to optimise their own memory allocation and use patterns, but they can't rely on that info for actual correctness.

    J

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