On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 02:02 >> ... >> That's important if the stuff happens cross CPU. If the update happens on >> the same CPU then this is a different story and as there are VMexits >> involved they might provide the required ordering already. But I can't tell >> as I have no idea how that host side thing is done. >> >> tglx > > IMO Hyper-V TSC page clocksource here seems pretty similar to KVM's pvclock, > So I would guess "the structure is only updated just before reentering the guest > after some VM event" (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/kvm-pvclock/), > that is, the update should happen on the same CPU, I guess. If the patch is correct, there is one of these shared by all vCPUs, so this is not a sufficient explanation. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
