On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 17:07 -0400, Michael Voorhis wrote: > Ian Lepore writes: > > > > Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to try. It might be necessary to > > get some bhyve developers involved (I know almost nothing about it). > NTPD behaves more normally on uniprocessor VMs. > > A FreeBSD bhyve-guest running on a freebsd host will select a > different timecounter depending on whether it is a multiprocessor or a > uniprocessor. My uniprocessor bhyve-vm selected TSC-low as the best > timecounter in a uniprocessor. NTP functions there as expected. > > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) > kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low > > The very same VM, when given two total CPUs, selected HPET (if I > recall) and the timekeeping with NTPD was unreliable, with many > step-resets to the clock. > Hmm, I just had glance at the code in sys/amd64/vmm/io/vhpet.c and it looks right. I wonder if this is just a simple roundoff error in converting between 10.0MHz and SBT units? If so, that could be wished away easily by using a power-of-2 frequency for the virtual HPET. I wonder if the attached patch is all that's needed? -- Ian
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