Re: Strange numbers from gettimeofday(2)

[Jed Davis <jdev%panix.com@localhost>]

YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost> writes:

>> Hum, at last for Xen3, tsc_timestamp is updated just before the context
>> switch, so it should be OK. Xen2 looks similar.
>
> iirc, xen2 does rdtsc in its timer interrupt handler
> and stores it to a global variable, and uses it for any domains.

I noticed, in xen2's start-of-day code (arch/x86/smpboot.c), a
procedure that attempts to get all the CPUs TSCs as synchronized as
possible; the comments indicate an assumption that they'll run at the
same rate thereafter.

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