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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1
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Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1 |
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Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:36:44 +0900 |
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On 04/23/2010 02:17 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
> Dor Laor wrote:
[...]
>> Second, even if it wasn't the case, the tsc delta and kvmclock are
>> synchronized as part of the VM state so there is no use of trapping it
>> in the middle.
>
> I should study the clock in KVM, but won't tsc get updated by the HW
> after migration?
> I was wondering the following case for example:
>
> 1. The application on the guest calls rdtsc on host A.
> 2. The application uses rdtsc value for something.
> 3. Failover to host B.
> 4. The application on the guest replays the rdtsc call on host B.
> 5. If the rdtsc value is different between A and B, the application may
> get into trouble because of it.
Regarding the TSC, we need to guarantee that the guest sees a monotonic
TSC after migration, which can be achieved by adjusting the TSC offset properly.
Besides, we also need a trapping TSC, so that we can tackle the case where the
primary node and the standby node have different TSC frequencies.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Dor Laor, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Dor Laor, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Dor Laor, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1,
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Dor Laor, 2010/04/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Takuya Yoshikawa, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Jamie Lokier, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Yoshiaki Tamura, 2010/04/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Jamie Lokier, 2010/04/23
[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/22
[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Kemari for KVM v0.1, Avi Kivity, 2010/04/23