From: "wangyanan (Y)" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
"wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com" <wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com>,
"yuzenghui@huawei.com" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] KVM: selftests: Use flag CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW for timing
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:33:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ab0ec23-51c7-0258-4776-3268120f0c9e@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f36c1973c8147858000dd2a28d046ce@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On 2021/4/19 16:22, David Laight wrote:
> From: wangyanan (Y)
>> Sent: 19 April 2021 07:40
>>
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> On 2021/4/17 21:23, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 30/03/21 10:08, Yanan Wang wrote:
>>>> In addition to function of CLOCK_MONOTONIC, flag CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW can
>>>> also shield possiable impact of NTP, which can provide more robustness.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov<vkuznets@redhat.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang<wangyanan55@huawei.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon<bgardon@google.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones<drjones@redhat.com>
>>> I'm not sure about this one, is the effect visible?
>>>
>> In practice, difference between results got with CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
>> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
>> actually is too little to be visible. But if just in theory,
>> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW can ensure time results
>> of the compared tests are based on the same local oscillator frequency,
>> which is not subject to possible
>> NTP frequency adjustment. Change in this patch seems like a bit of
>> optimization.
> The real annoyance is when NTP is realigning the local clock.
> This typically happens after boot - but can take quite a few
> minutes (don't think it can quite get to an hour).
> (I think something similar is caused by leap seconds.)
>
> During this period CLOCK_MONOTONIC can run at a significantly
> different rate from 'real time'.
> This may not matter for timing self tests, but is significant
> for RTP audio.
>
> The problem there is that you want the NTP corrected time
> during 'normal running' because the small correction (for
> crystal error) is useful.
>
> But the kernel HR timers are only defined for CLOCK_MONOTONIC
> and the userspace requests for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW are likely
> to be real system calls.
>
> What you really want is a clock whose frequency is adjusted
> by NTP but doesn't have the NTP offset adjuctments.
> In reality this ought to be CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Hi David,
I see now, much thanks for the above explanation. :)
Still have a lot to learn about this part.
Thanks,
Yanan
>
> David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-30 8:08 [PATCH v6 00/10] KVM: selftests: some improvement and a new test for kvm page table Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] tools/headers: sync headers of asm-generic/hugetlb_encode.h Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] mm/hugetlb: Add a macro to get HUGETLB page sizes for mmap Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] KVM: selftests: Use flag CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW for timing Yanan Wang
2021-04-17 13:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-19 6:40 ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-04-19 8:22 ` David Laight
2021-04-19 9:33 ` wangyanan (Y) [this message]
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] KVM: selftests: Print the errno besides error-string in TEST_ASSERT Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] KVM: selftests: Make a generic helper to get vm guest mode strings Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] KVM: selftests: Add a helper to get system configured THP page size Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] KVM: selftests: Add a helper to get system default hugetlb " Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] KVM: selftests: List all hugetlb src types specified with page sizes Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] KVM: selftests: Adapt vm_userspace_mem_region_add to new helpers Yanan Wang
2021-03-30 8:08 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] KVM: selftests: Add a test for kvm page table code Yanan Wang
2021-04-06 3:05 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] KVM: selftests: some improvement and a new test for kvm page table wangyanan (Y)
2021-04-17 13:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
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