[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/13] Add VMX TSC scaling support
On 11/23/15 10:37, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 11/22/2015 12:54 PM, Haozhong Zhang wrote: > >Hi Jan, Boris and Aravind, > > > >(Sorry for sending such a long email and thanks for your patience) > > First, thank you very much for doing this. > > > > >Because this patchset also touches the existing SVM TSC ratio code, I > >tested it on an AMD machine with an AMD A10-7700K CPU (3.4 GHz) that > >supports SVM TSC ratio. There are two goals of the test: > > (1) Check whether this patchset works well for SVM TSC ratio. > > (2) Check whether the existing SVM TSC ratio code works correctly. > > > >* TL;DR > > The detailed testing process is boring and long, so I put the > > conclusions first. > > > > According to the following test, > > (1) this patchset works well for SVM TSC ratio, and > > (2) the existing SVM TSC ratio code does not work correctly. > > > > > >* Preliminary bug fix > > > > Before testing (specially for goal (2)), I have to fix another bug > > found in the current svm_get_tsc_offset() (commit e08f383): > > > > static uint64_t svm_get_tsc_offset(uint64_t host_tsc, uint64_t guest_tsc, > > uint64_t ratio) > > { > > uint64_t offset; > > > > if (ratio == DEFAULT_TSC_RATIO) > > return guest_tsc - host_tsc; > > > > /* calculate hi,lo parts in 64bits to prevent overflow */ > > offset = (((host_tsc >> 32U) * (ratio >> 32U)) << 32U) + > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > (host_tsc & 0xffffffffULL) * (ratio & 0xffffffffULL); > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ^^ wrong > > > > return guest_tsc - offset; > > } > > > > Looking at the AMD's spec about TSC ratio MSR and where this function is > > called, it's expected to calculate > > guest_tsc - (host_tsc * ratio) >> 32 > > but above underlined code is definitely not "(host_tsc * ratio) >> 32", > > and above function will return a much larger result than > > expected if (guest TSC rate / host TSC rate) > 1. In practice, it > > could result the guest TSC jumping to several years later after > > migration (which I came across and was confuse by in this test). > > Yes, this is obviously wrong. > > > > > This bug can be fixed either later by patch 5 which introduces a > > common function hvm_scale_tsc() to scale TSC, or by replacing above > > underlined code with a simplified and inlined version of > > hvm_scale_tsc() as below: > > uint64_t mult, frac; > > mult = ratio >> 32; > > frac = ratio & ((1ULL << 32) - 1); > > offset = host_tsc * mult; > > offset += (host_tsc >> 32) * frac; > > offset += ((host_tsc & ((1ULL << 32) - 1)) * frac) >> 32; > > I am not sure I understand the last line (or maybe 2 lines) > Just simple math with carefulness to avoid 64-bit integer overflow: suppose the most significant 32 bits of host_tsc and ratio are tsc_h and mult, and the least significant 32 bits of them are tsc_l and frac, then host_tsc * ratio * 2^-32 = host_tsc * (mult * 2^32 + frac) * 2^-32 = host_tsc * mult + (tsc_h * 2^32 + tsc_l) * frac * 2^-32 = host_tsc * mult + tsc_h * frac + ((tsc_l * frac) >> 32) All multiplications in the last line are between 32-bit integers, so none of them could overflow 64-bit integers. Consider a simple example that host_tsc = 1ULL << 33 and ratio = 0xffffffff. Overflow happens in the multiplication of the second term of your formula below, and all overflowed bits are lost in the next right shift. Haozhong > If by 'offset' here you are trying to calculate the scaled version of host > TSC then I think it would be > > (host_tsc * (ratio >> 32)) + ( (host_tsc * (ratio & 0xffffffff)) >> 32 ) > > (sanity check: assuming host_tsc is 8 and the ratio is 1.5 (i.e. > 0x180000000) we get 12) > > > -boris > > > > For testing goal (2), I apply the latter fix. > > > > > >* Test for goal (1) > > > > * Environment > > (1) Xen (commit e08f383) > > (2) Host Linux kernel 3.19.0 > > (3) Guest Linux kernel 3.19.0 & 4.2.0 > > > > * Process > > (1) Apply the whole patchset on commit e08f383. > > > > (2) Launch a HVM domain from the configuration xl-high.cfg (in > > attachment). > > > > Expected: The guest Linux should boot normally in the domain. > > > > (3) Execute the command "dmesg | grep -i tsc" in the guest Linux > > to check the TSC rate detected by the guest Linux. > > > > Expected: Suppose the detected TSC rate is 'gtsc_khz' in KHz, > > then it should be as close to the value of 'vtsc_khz' > > option in xl-high.cfg as possible. > > > > (4) Execute the program "./test_tsc <nr_secs> gtsc_khz" to check > > whether the guest TSC rate is synchronized with the wall clock. > > The code of test_tsc is also in the attachment. It records the > > beginning and ending TSC values (tsc0 and tsc1) for a period > > of nr_secs and outputs the result of > > (tsc1 - tsc0) / (gtsc_khz * 1000). > > > > Expected: The output should be as close to nr_secs as possible. > > > > Follows test the migration. > > > > (5) Save the current domain by "xl save hvm-test saved_domain". > > > > (6) Restore the domain. > > > > (7) Take above step (4) again to check whether the guest TSC rate > > is still synchronized with the wall clock. > > > > Expected: the same as step (5) > > > > (8) Switch to the configuration xl-low.cfg and take above > > steps (2) ~ (6) again. > > > > * Results (OK: All as expected) > > First round w/ xl-high.cfg (vtsc_khz = 4000000): > > (3) gtsc_khz = 4000000 KHz > > (4) ./test_tsc 10 4000000 outputs: Passed 9.99895 s > > ./test_tsc 3600 4000000 outputs: Passed 3599.99754 s > > (7) ./test_tsc 10 4000000 outputs: Passed 9.99885 s > > ./test_tsc 3600 4000000 outputs: Passed 3599.98987 s > > > > Second round w/ xl-low.cfg (vtsc_khz = 2000000): > > (3) gtsc_khz = 2000000 KHz > > (4) ./test_tsc 10 4000000 outputs: Passed 9.99886 s > > ./test_tsc 3600 4000000 outputs: Passed 3599.99810 s > > (7) ./test_tsc 10 4000000 outputs: Passed 9.99885 s > > ./test_tsc 3600 4000000 outputs: Passed 3599.99853 s > > > > I also switched the clocksource of guest Linux to 'hpet' and got > > very similar results to above. > > > > > >* Test for goal (2) > > > > * Environment > > The same as above > > > > * Process > > (1) ~ (5): the same as above. > > (6) Reboot to Xen hypervisor and toolstack w/o this patchset but > > w/ the bug fix at the beginning and restore the domain. > > (7) the same as above. > > > > * Results (Failed) > > (7) ./test_tsc 10 4000000 outputs: Passed 63.319284 s > > > > > >* Conclusion > > > > This patchset works well for SVM TSC ratio and fixes existing bugs > > in SVM TSC ratio code. > > > > > >Thanks for your patience to read such a long email, > >Haozhong > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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