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RE: [Xen-devel] Instability with Xen, interrupt routing frozen, HPET bro

To: "'gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx'" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Instability with Xen, interrupt routing frozen, HPET broadcast
From: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 17:31:44 -0500
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:02:34 +0800, gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am the original developer of HPET broadcast code. 
>
> First of all, to disable HPET broadcast, no additional patch is required. 
> Please simply add option "cpuidle=off" or "max_cstate=1" at xen cmdline in 
> /boot/grub/grub.conf. 
> 
> Second, I noticed that the issue just occur on pre-nehalem server processors. 
> I 
> will check whether I can reproduce it. 

> On , xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Maybe you can disable pirq_set_affinity to have a try with the
> > following patch. It may trigger IRQ migration in hypervisor,
> > and the IRQ migration logic about(especailly
> > shared)level-triggered ioapic IRQ is not well tested because
> > of no users before.  After intoducing the pirq_set_affinity in
> > #Cset21625, the logic is used frequently when vcpu migration
> > occurs, so I doubt it maybe expose the issue you met.
> > Besides, there is a bug in event driver which is fixed in
> > latest pv_ops dom0, seems the dom0 you are using doesn't
> > include the fix.  This bug may result in lost event in dom0
> > and invoke dom0 hang eventually. To workaround this bug,  you
> > can disable irqbalance in dom0. Good luck!

Andreas Kinzler reported seeing soft-locks and hard-locks on Xen
back in September 2010, associated with HPET broadcast.

I'm seeing similar issues.  If I disable C-states as Jimmy suggests
above, the problem goes away.  If I set the clocksource to pit, the
problem goes away.  It may go away also if I set the clocksource to
pmtimer/acpi, or if I remove HPET from the list of available platform
timers.

Did this issue ever get resolved?  Is there a better solution that
using pit as a clocksource?  I'd really prefer to not disable 
C-states, as the hardware I'm using gets significant performance
and performance/watt benefits from being able to enter C2.

--Mark Langsdorf
Operating System Research Center
AMD


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