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RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-Devel (xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC
From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:41 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:58 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong; Dan Magenheimer; Xen-Devel (xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx);
>Ian Pratt
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC
>
>On 27/05/2010 07:15, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>> It depends how physical CPU hotplug is implemented doesn't it. I expect
>>>>> there's sufficient firmware involved in such an operation that TSCs
>>>>> could
>>>>> get synced up before host software gets a look in. I don't think we can
>>>>> comment on whether or not there is an issue here without more
>>>>> information.
>>
>> Yes, this is a issue. The TSC will not be synched by firmware when hot-added,
>> at least I didn't find any spec on this, and my experiment shows the TSC 
>> value
>> is very small when new CPU is brought up. We need sync it in Xen side,
>>
>> Is it possible to sync the new-added CPU with the BSP when the CPU is added
>> (changed from non-present to present), as Keir suggested in previous mail? I
>> will have a look on the related code.
>
>Is this *specifically* a problem for physical cpu hot-add, but not 'logical'
>cpu online (i.e, XENPF_cpu_hotadd but not XENPF_cpu_online)?

Yes, I do think so, if the CPU support invariant TSC. For those CPU that does 
not support invariant TSC, I think current redezvous calibration code has do 
that already, right?

>
>We could sync an AP's TSC with the master CPU bringing it up (typically
>CPU0) if (a) !boot_cpu_has(RELIABLE_TSC); or (b) The slave was introduced
>via XENPF_cpu_hotadd and this is its first time brought online.

Yes, exactly.

>
>Thoughts? I can implement this, or whatever we can (attempt to) agree on,

It's great if you can do that. I'm still checking the time related code. 

>easily enough. I expect Dan would prefer to have XENPF_cpu_hotadd disabled,
>or RELIABLE_TSC disabled, depending on a command-line option defaulting to
>the former. It seems a bit onerous to me however.

Yes, thanks.
BTW, are there any easy way to check the TSC skew in the system? Originally I 
get the TSC through ITP, that's not so convenient.

>
> -- Keir
>


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