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

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, 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: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:44:04 +0100
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On 27/05/2010 07:15, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> 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.

I implemented this as xen-unstable:21468. This represents a strict
improvement on what was in xen-unstable before that (no tsc sync at all,
ever, because I deleted it about a week ago). Open to further improvements,
if we can get consensus.

 -- Keir



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