RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Physical hot-add cpus and TSC

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> BTW, I notice one more thing, when system booting w/o hotplug, the warp
> is 0. However, after I return back after weekend, I noticed the warp is
> 182. Because I did the hotplug action before getting the warp, I'm not
> sure if it's caused by the hotplug action, or the system TSC will drift
> very slowly.
>  (XEN) TSC marked as reliable, warp = 182 (count=2)

Hmmm... I'm much more worried about this case and would
like to understand this better.  If this is reproducible
on real-world QPI systems, and there is no way to a priori
determine that "this is a system where even though the
Invariant TSC bit is set, this system may drift", then
there is no way Invariant TSC can be exposed to a guest.

/me can hear Jeremy biting his tongue hard to avoid
saying "I told you so". ;-)

Dan

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