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The Linux TSC calibration procedure is subject to small variations
(its common to see +-1 kHz difference between reboots on a given CPU, for example).
So migrating a guest between two hosts with identical processor can fail, in case
of a small variation in calibrated TSC between them.
Without TSC scaling, the current kernel interface will either return an error
(if user_tsc_khz <= tsc_khz) or enable TSC catchup mode.
This change enables the following TSC tolerance check to
accept KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ within tsc_tolerance_ppm (which is 250ppm by default).
/*
* Compute the variation in TSC rate which is acceptable
* within the range of tolerance and decide if the
* rate being applied is within that bounds of the hardware
* rate. If so, no scaling or compensation need be done.
*/
thresh_lo = adjust_tsc_khz(tsc_khz, -tsc_tolerance_ppm);
thresh_hi = adjust_tsc_khz(tsc_khz, tsc_tolerance_ppm);
if (user_tsc_khz < thresh_lo || user_tsc_khz > thresh_hi) {
pr_debug("kvm: requested TSC rate %u falls outside tolerance [%u,%u]\n", user_tsc_khz, thresh_lo, thresh_hi);
use_scaling = 1;
}
NTP daemon in the guest can correct this difference (NTP can correct upto 500ppm).
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200616114741.GA298183@fuller.cnet>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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