Re: [kvm-devel] Guest kernel hangs in smp kvm for older kernels priorto tsc sync cleanup

[Avi Kivity]

Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> Changes in rate does not sound good. It's possibly what's screwing up
> my paravirt clock implementation in smp.
>   

You should renew the timebase on vcpu migration, and hook cpufreq so 
that changes in frequency are reflected in the timebase.

> Since the host updates guest time prior to putting vcpu to run, two
> vcpus that start running at different times will have different system
> values.
>
> Now if the vcpu that started running later probes the time first,
> we'll se the time going backwards. A constant tsc rate is the only way
> around
> my limited mind sees around the problem (besides, obviously, _not_
> making the system time per-vcpu).
>   

I tried disabling frequency scaling (rmmod acpi_cpufreq) but that didn't 
help my present problems.

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