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...n K. Y. again and ask him to use his magic powers to extract some info from the Hyper-V team. As we have TSC page clocksource for quite a while now and no bugs were reported there should be something. Actually, we already have an implementation of TSC page update in KVM (see arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c, kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page()) and the update does the following: 0) stash seq into seq_prev 1) seq = 0 making all reads from the page invalid 2) smp_wmb() 3) update tsc_scale, tsc_offset 4) smp_wmb() 5) set seq = seq_prev + 1 As far as I understand this helps with situations you described above as guest will notice either...

...n K. Y. again and ask him to use his magic powers to extract some info from the Hyper-V team. As we have TSC page clocksource for quite a while now and no bugs were reported there should be something. Actually, we already have an implementation of TSC page update in KVM (see arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c, kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page()) and the update does the following: 0) stash seq into seq_prev 1) seq = 0 making all reads from the page invalid 2) smp_wmb() 3) update tsc_scale, tsc_offset 4) smp_wmb() 5) set seq = seq_prev + 1 As far as I understand this helps with situations you described above as guest will notice either...

Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> Actually, we already have an implementation of TSC page update in KVM >> (see arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c, kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page()) and the update does >> the following: >> >> 0) stash seq into seq_prev >> 1) seq = 0 making all reads from the page invalid >> 2) smp_wmb() >> 3) update tsc_scale, tsc_offset >> 4) smp_wmb() >> 5) set seq = seq_prev + 1 > > I hope they handl...

Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> Actually, we already have an implementation of TSC page update in KVM >> (see arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c, kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page()) and the update does >> the following: >> >> 0) stash seq into seq_prev >> 1) seq = 0 making all reads from the page invalid >> 2) smp_wmb() >> 3) update tsc_scale, tsc_offset >> 4) smp_wmb() >> 5) set seq = seq_prev + 1 > > I hope they handl...

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Actually, we already have an implementation of TSC page update in KVM > (see arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c, kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page()) and the update does > the following: > > 0) stash seq into seq_prev > 1) seq = 0 making all reads from the page invalid > 2) smp_wmb() > 3) update tsc_scale, tsc_offset > 4) smp_wmb() > 5) set seq = seq_prev + 1 I hope they handle the case where seq_prev overflows and b...

Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> while we're still waiting for a definitive ACK from Microsoft that the >> algorithm is good for SMP case (as we can't prevent the code in vdso from >> migrating between CPUs) I'd like to send v2 with some modifications to keep

Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> writes: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> while we're still waiting for a definitive ACK from Microsoft that the >> algorithm is good for SMP case (as we can't prevent the code in vdso from >> migrating between CPUs) I'd like to send v2 with some modifications to keep