From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/time: use correct (local) time stamp in constant-TSC calibration fast path
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:11:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57595D07.90107@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575976AE02000078000F3695@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 06/09/2016 01:01 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This looks like a copy and paste mistake in commit 1b6a99892d ("x86:
> Simpler time handling when TSC is constant across all power saving
> states"), responsible for occasional many-microsecond cross-CPU skew of
> what NOW() returns.
>
> Also improve the correlation between local TSC and stime stamps
> obtained at the end of the two calibration handlers: Compute the stime
> one from the TSC one, instead of doing another rdtsc() for that
> compuation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> ---
> As to 4.7 inclusion: This of course looks like a pretty blatant mistake
> that has been there for many years (and hence many releases). There's
> certainly non-zero risk that I'm overlooking something here (despite
> Joao apparently having come to the same conclusion), so I can't really
> make up my mind on whether to request this patch to be put there right
> away, or rather having linger in -unstable for a while.
>
Initially I thought of this as a fix too, but then wouldn't having
t->stime_local_stamp be c->stime_local_stamp, render no use to the
platform timer reads done on calibration? Unless we would change
update_vcpu_system to use stime_master_stamp instead?
stime_master_stamp field isn't used anywhere other than the dom0 injected
cpu_frequency_change or when at boot seeding the cpu_time struct on
init_percpu_time (and the already mentioned use on local_time_calibration) ?
init_percpu_time also takes a different read of the platform timer per
cpu and could probably be inherited by a read done on the boot processor
and written on remaining CPUs, so that all would start from the same stamp.
IOW - this sounds like time we are turning stime to be totally TSC except
when initially seeding each cpu_time?
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/time.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/time.c
> @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ static void local_time_calibration(void)
> /* Atomically read cpu_calibration struct and write cpu_time struct. */
> local_irq_disable();
> t->local_tsc_stamp = c->local_tsc_stamp;
> - t->stime_local_stamp = c->stime_master_stamp;
> + t->stime_local_stamp = c->stime_local_stamp;
> t->stime_master_stamp = c->stime_master_stamp;
> local_irq_enable();
> update_vcpu_system_time(current);
> @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ static void time_calibration_tsc_rendezv
> }
>
> c->local_tsc_stamp = rdtsc();
> - c->stime_local_stamp = get_s_time();
> + c->stime_local_stamp = get_s_time_fixed(c->local_tsc_stamp);
> c->stime_master_stamp = r->master_stime;
>
> raise_softirq(TIME_CALIBRATE_SOFTIRQ);
> @@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ static void time_calibration_std_rendezv
> }
>
> c->local_tsc_stamp = rdtsc();
> - c->stime_local_stamp = get_s_time();
> + c->stime_local_stamp = get_s_time_fixed(c->local_tsc_stamp);
> c->stime_master_stamp = r->master_stime;
>
> raise_softirq(TIME_CALIBRATE_SOFTIRQ);
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-09 12:01 [PATCH] x86/time: use correct (local) time stamp in constant-TSC calibration fast path Jan Beulich
2016-06-09 12:10 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-09 12:11 ` Joao Martins [this message]
2016-06-09 12:57 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-09 15:00 ` Joao Martins
2016-06-09 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-09 18:19 ` Joao Martins
2016-06-10 6:59 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-10 9:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-10 17:07 ` Joao Martins
2016-06-09 12:12 ` Wei Liu
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