From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
"containers@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"criu@openvz.org" <criu@openvz.org>,
"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>Alexey Dobriyan <ad>
Subject: Re: Setting monotonic time?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 20:51:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181001205124.GA23620@outlook.office365.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ej2xc23.fsf_-_@xmission.com>
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> In the context of process migration there is a simpler subproblem that I
> think it is worth exploring if we can do something about.
>
> For a cluster of machines all running with synchronized
> clocks. CLOCK_REALTIME matches. CLOCK_MONOTNIC does not match between
> machines. Not having a matching CLOCK_MONOTONIC prevents successful
> process migration between nodes in that cluster.
>
> Would it be possible to allow setting CLOCK_MONOTONIC at the very
> beginning of time? So that all of the nodes in a cluster can be in
> sync?
Here is a question about how to synchronize clocks between nodes. It
looks like we will need to have a working network for this, but a
network configuration may be non-trivial and it can require to run a few
processes which can use CLOCK_MONOTNIC...
>
> No change in skew just in offset for CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
>
> There are also dragons involved in coordinating things so that
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC gets set before CLOCK_MONOTONIC gets used. So I don't
> know if allowing CLOCK_MONOTONIC to be set would be practical but it
> seems work exploring all on it's own.
>
> Dmitry would setting CLOCK_MONOTONIC exactly once at boot time solve
> your problem that is you are looking at a time namespace to solve?
Process migration is only one of use-cases. Another use-case is
restoring from snapshots. It may be even more popular than process
migration. We can't guarantee that all snapshots will be done in one
cluster. For example, a user meets a bug, does a container snapshot and
attaches it to a bug report.
>
> Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-01 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 20:50 [RFC 00/20] ns: Introduce Time Namespace Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 01/20] " Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-28 18:20 ` Laurent Vivier
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 02/20] timens: Add timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-20 18:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-09-20 22:14 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 03/20] timens: Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 04/20] timens: Introduce CLOCK_BOOTTIME offset Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-30 3:18 ` [LKP] [timens] 3cc8de9dcb: RIP:posix_get_boottime kernel test robot
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 05/20] timerfd/timens: Take into account ns clock offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 06/20] kernel: Take into account timens clock offsets in clock_nanosleep Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 07/20] timens: Shift /proc/uptime Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 08/20] x86/vdso: Restrict splitting vvar vma Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 09/20] x86/vdso/timens: Add offsets page in vvar Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 10/20] x86/vdso: Use set_normalized_timespec() to avoid 32 bit overflow Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 11/20] x86/vdso: Purge timens page on setns()/unshare()/clone() Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 12/20] x86/vdso: Look for vvar vma to purge timens page Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 13/20] posix-timers/timens: Take into account clock offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-30 3:11 ` [LKP] [posix] 25217c6e39: BUG:KASAN:null-ptr-deref_in_c kernel test robot
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 14/20] timens: Add align for timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 15/20] timens: Optimize zero-offsets Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 16/20] selftest: Add Time Namespace test for supported clocks Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-24 21:36 ` Shuah Khan
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 17/20] selftest/timens: Add test for timerfd Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 18/20] selftest/timens: Add test for clock_nanosleep Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 19/20] timens/selftest: Add procfs selftest Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-19 20:50 ` [RFC 20/20] timens/selftest: Add timer offsets test Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-21 12:27 ` [RFC 00/20] ns: Introduce Time Namespace Eric W. Biederman
2018-09-24 20:51 ` Andrey Vagin
2018-09-24 22:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-09-25 1:42 ` Andrey Vagin
2018-09-26 17:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-09-26 17:59 ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-09-27 21:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-27 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-01 23:20 ` Andrey Vagin
2018-10-02 6:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-02 21:05 ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-10-02 21:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-28 17:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-09-28 19:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-01 9:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-01 9:15 ` Setting monotonic time? Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-01 18:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-02 20:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-02 20:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-03 4:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-03 5:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-03 6:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-03 7:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-03 6:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-01 20:51 ` Andrey Vagin [this message]
2018-10-02 6:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-21 1:41 ` [RFC 00/20] ns: Introduce Time Namespace Andrei Vagin
2018-10-21 3:54 ` Andrei Vagin
2018-10-29 20:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-29 21:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-29 21:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 16:26 ` Andrei Vagin
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