On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:45:12PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Ok folks, here is the band aid fix for testing from the odd bugs > department. Goes on top of the four patches of this series. A real, > clean solution is TBD. Tomorrow I hope (some urgent private problems > are in the queue too ...). > > Problem is the per-cpu area for cpu 0 has two locations in memory, one > before and one after pda initialization. kvmclock registers the first > due to being initialized quite early, and the paravirt clock for cpu 0 > stops seeing updates once the pda setup is done. Which makes the TSC > effectively the base for timekeeping (instead of using the TSC for > millisecond delta adjustments only). Secondary CPUs work as intended. > > This obviously screws up timekeeping on SMP guests, especially on hosts > with unstable TSC. > > happy testing,
Gerd, SMP guests can boot and seem stable. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
