similar to: [PATCH 0/2] Paravirt loops per jiffy calculation

paravirt clock source patches, next round. There is now a pvclock-abi.h file with the structs and some longish comments in it and everybody is switched over to use the stuff in there. Some minor tweaks after super-fast review by Jeremy. The queue is on top of the kvm git tree. The first two patches should have no kvm dependencies and should apply to linus tree just fine. cheers, Gerd

paravirt clock source patches, next round. There is now a pvclock-abi.h file with the structs and some longish comments in it and everybody is switched over to use the stuff in there. Some minor tweaks after super-fast review by Jeremy. The queue is on top of the kvm git tree. The first two patches should have no kvm dependencies and should apply to linus tree just fine. cheers, Gerd

paravirt clock source patches, next round. There is now a pvclock-abi.h file with the structs and some longish comments in it and everybody is switched over to use the stuff in there. cheers, Gerd

paravirt clock source patches, next round. There is now a pvclock-abi.h file with the structs and some longish comments in it and everybody is switched over to use the stuff in there. cheers, Gerd

paravirt clock source patches, next round, with a bunch of changes in the host code according to Avi's review comments and some minor code tweaks. cheers, Gerd

paravirt clock source patches, next round, with a bunch of changes in the host code according to Avi's review comments and some minor code tweaks. cheers, Gerd

Respin of the paravirt clock patch series. On the host side the kvm paravirt clock is made compatible with the xen clock. On the guest side some xen code has been factored out into a separate source file shared by both kvm and xen clock implementations. This time it should work ok for kvm smp guests ;) cheers, Gerd

Respin of the paravirt clock patch series. On the host side the kvm paravirt clock is made compatible with the xen clock. On the guest side some xen code has been factored out into a separate source file shared by both kvm and xen clock implementations. This time it should work ok for kvm smp guests ;) cheers, Gerd

If the guest domain has been suspend/resumed or migrated, then the system clock backing the pvclock clocksource may revert to a smaller value (ie, can be non-monotonic across the migration/save-restore). Make sure we zero last_value in that case so that the domain continues to see clock updates. [ I don't know if kvm needs an analogous fix or not. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

If the guest domain has been suspend/resumed or migrated, then the system clock backing the pvclock clocksource may revert to a smaller value (ie, can be non-monotonic across the migration/save-restore). Make sure we zero last_value in that case so that the domain continues to see clock updates. [ I don't know if kvm needs an analogous fix or not. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

If the guest domain has been suspend/resumed or migrated, then the system clock backing the pvclock clocksource may revert to a smaller value (ie, can be non-monotonic across the migration/save-restore). Make sure we zero last_value in that case so that the domain continues to see clock updates. [ I don't know if kvm needs an analogous fix or not. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge

Re-factor the vmware platform setup code to query the hypervisor for tsc frequency only once during boot. Since the VMware hypervisor guarantees constant TSC, calibrate_tsc now uses the saved value. Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com> Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1

Re-factor the vmware platform setup code to query the hypervisor for tsc frequency only once during boot. Since the VMware hypervisor guarantees constant TSC, calibrate_tsc now uses the saved value. Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov at vmware.com> Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1

After aa297292d708, there are separate native calibrations for cpu_khz and tsc_khz. The code sets x86_platform.calibrate_cpu to native_calibrate_cpu() which looks in cpuid leaf 0x16 or msrs for the cpu frequency. Since we keep the tsc_khz constant (even after vmotion), the cpu_khz and tsc_khz may start diverging. tsc_init() now does cpu_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_cpu(); tsc_khz =

After aa297292d708, there are separate native calibrations for cpu_khz and tsc_khz. The code sets x86_platform.calibrate_cpu to native_calibrate_cpu() which looks in cpuid leaf 0x16 or msrs for the cpu frequency. Since we keep the tsc_khz constant (even after vmotion), the cpu_khz and tsc_khz may start diverging. tsc_init() now does cpu_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_cpu(); tsc_khz =

Lguest currently requires a TSC, which breaks older machines and Matt Mackall who boots the host with "notsc". In addition, there is no good solution to changing TSC speeds (informing all the guests about the TSC impending change before it happens would be a great deal of code and have issues with disobedient guests). This patch makes the host determine if the TSC is both constant and

Lguest currently requires a TSC, which breaks older machines and Matt Mackall who boots the host with "notsc". In addition, there is no good solution to changing TSC speeds (informing all the guests about the TSC impending change before it happens would be a great deal of code and have issues with disobedient guests). This patch makes the host determine if the TSC is both constant and

I believe our trademark guidelines say we aren't supposed to use VMware as a noun to mean a product, only to mean the company. So we can say "running on VMware ESXi" or "running in a VMware virtual machine", but "running on VMware" is wrong. There is supposedly some good legal reason for this related to keeping our trademark. On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:26:00 -0700,

I believe our trademark guidelines say we aren't supposed to use VMware as a noun to mean a product, only to mean the company. So we can say "running on VMware ESXi" or "running in a VMware virtual machine", but "running on VMware" is wrong. There is supposedly some good legal reason for this related to keeping our trademark. On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:26:00 -0700,

This patchset includes several VMware guest improvements: Alexey Makhalov (3): x86/vmware: Use tsc_khz value for calibrate_cpu() x86/vmware: Add basic paravirt ops support x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) -- 2.10.1