From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, roger.pau@citrix.com, wl@xen.org,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/time: update TSC stamp on restore from deep C-state
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:47:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8b5f2f3-74ab-d874-5f11-de4d5a9ec941@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7951674e-1b8a-03b0-00b9-e7d7fe7eb10c@suse.com>
On 15/01/2020 12:39, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 15.01.2020 13:28, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
>> On 15/01/2020 11:32, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 14.01.2020 20:36, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
>>>> If ITSC is not available on CPU (e.g if running nested as PV shim)
>>>> then X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC is not advertised in certain cases, i.e.
>>>> all AMD and some old Intel processors. In which case TSC would need to
>>>> be restored on CPU from platform time by Xen upon exiting deep C-states.
>>>
>>> How does waking from deep C states correspond to the PV shim? I notice
>>> that cstate_restore_tsc() gets called irrespective of the C state being
>>> exited, so I wonder whether there's room for improvement there
>>> independent of the issue at hand. As far as this change is concerned,
>>> I think you want to drop the notion of "deep" from the description.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with what to call "deep C-state" so for me it was anything
>> higher than C1. If you prefer "deep" to be dropped - so be it.
>
> "Higher than C1" may be fine (albeit I vaguely recall TSC issues
> starting with C3 only), but at least mwait_idle() calls the
> function even for C1. As to the PV shim - does it know about any
> C-states at all (beyond HLT-invoked C1)?
Yes, PV-shim knows about C states as it looks they are tied to
processor ID in some cases. For AMD specifically C2 is HLT.
Igor
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 19:36 [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/time: update TSC stamp on restore from deep C-state Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 9:47 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-15 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 11:53 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-15 12:49 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 13:44 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-15 16:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-16 9:33 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-16 9:38 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-16 12:09 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-16 12:25 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-15 12:25 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 12:31 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 12:41 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 12:36 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 13:23 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-01-15 14:45 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 11:32 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 12:28 ` Igor Druzhinin
2020-01-15 12:39 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 12:47 ` Igor Druzhinin [this message]
2020-01-15 12:54 ` Jan Beulich
2020-01-15 14:55 ` Andrew Cooper
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