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Re: [Xen-devel] A clocksource question

To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] A clocksource question
From: Joanna Rutkowska <joanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:52:25 +0100
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
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On 03/11/2010 01:21 AM, Ian Pratt wrote:
>> The TSC delta is troubling... if you hadn't said you had turned
>> off all power management, I would have guessed a problem with
>> C-state management.  Maybe Xen is discovering some power management
>> capability not visible in BIOS settings?
> 
> Xen uses the architectural C state mechanism, bypassing ACPI.
> Use "max_cstate=0"
> 
Tried it (as an argument to xen) and it didn't seem to help.

BTW, how does the clocksource=jiffies work on a pvops kernel in Dom0?

j.

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