Re: [Xen-devel] time does not move forward in HVM guests

2017-07-05 Thread Olaf Hering
Am Wed, 05 Jul 2017 02:14:23 -0600 schrieb "Jan Beulich" : > Oh, even for HVM. Doesn't that go back to the missing vDSO > support then again, which we had discussed just last week? Yes. This is part of it. With clocksource=tsc there is a performance boost because vdso is used. With clocksource=h

Re: [Xen-devel] time does not move forward in HVM guests

2017-07-05 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 05.07.17 at 09:25, wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> > clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) indicates a resolution of 1ns. >> But what's the implied meaning of resolution here? See below. > > I have no ide what the returned value is supposed to promise. > >> Or did you perhaps te

Re: [Xen-devel] time does not move forward in HVM guests

2017-07-05 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jul 05, Jan Beulich wrote: > > clock_getres(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) indicates a resolution of 1ns. > But what's the implied meaning of resolution here? See below. I have no ide what the returned value is supposed to promise. > Or did you perhaps test with an older version, where the time > hand

Re: [Xen-devel] time does not move forward in HVM guests

2017-07-04 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 04.07.17 at 18:34, wrote: > In my testing with sysbench in a HVM domU running a linux-4.4 based > pvops kernel on a xen-4.7 based dom0 the time does not move forward > properly: > > There (URL below) is basically code like this: > clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, a) > do_work > clock_g