1. 08 Mar, 2012 2 commits
    • Zachary Amsden's avatar
      KVM: Improve TSC offset matching · 5d3cb0f6
      Zachary Amsden authored
      There are a few improvements that can be made to the TSC offset
      matching code.  First, we don't need to call the 128-bit multiply
      (especially on a constant number), the code works much nicer to
      do computation in nanosecond units.
      
      Second, the way everything is setup with software TSC rate scaling,
      we currently have per-cpu rates.  Obviously this isn't too desirable
      to use in practice, but if for some reason we do change the rate of
      all VCPUs at runtime, then reset the TSCs, we will only want to
      match offsets for VCPUs running at the same rate.
      
      Finally, for the case where we have an unstable host TSC, but
      rate scaling is being done in hardware, we should call the platform
      code to compute the TSC offset, so the math is reorganized to recompute
      the base instead, then transform the base into an offset using the
      existing API.
      
      [avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      
      KVM: Fix 64-bit division in kvm_write_tsc()
      
      Breaks i386 build.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      5d3cb0f6
    • Zachary Amsden's avatar
      KVM: Infrastructure for software and hardware based TSC rate scaling · cc578287
      Zachary Amsden authored
      This requires some restructuring; rather than use 'virtual_tsc_khz'
      to indicate whether hardware rate scaling is in effect, we consider
      each VCPU to always have a virtual TSC rate.  Instead, there is new
      logic above the vendor-specific hardware scaling that decides whether
      it is even necessary to use and updates all rate variables used by
      common code.  This means we can simply query the virtual rate at
      any point, which is needed for software rate scaling.
      
      There is also now a threshold added to the TSC rate scaling; minor
      differences and variations of measured TSC rate can accidentally
      provoke rate scaling to be used when it is not needed.  Instead,
      we have a tolerance variable called tsc_tolerance_ppm, which is
      the maximum variation from user requested rate at which scaling
      will be used.  The default is 250ppm, which is the half the
      threshold for NTP adjustment, allowing for some hardware variation.
      
      In the event that hardware rate scaling is not available, we can
      kludge a bit by forcing TSC catchup to turn on when a faster than
      hardware speed has been requested, but there is nothing available
      yet for the reverse case; this requires a trap and emulate software
      implementation for RDTSC, which is still forthcoming.
      
      [avi: fix 64-bit division on i386]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zamsden@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      cc578287
  2. 05 Mar, 2012 38 commits