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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:04:40 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 216759] [kern] Memory speed with small blocks (1K) up to 35 times slower than host system (under QEMU emulation, but not only)
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--- Comment #17 from andrew@azar-a.net ---
(In reply to deJong from comment #16)
It doesn't seem like the patchset is applied at all.

> kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) HPET(950) =
dummy(-1000000)

It should add kvmclock to that list which is obviously not there.

Forcing TSC-low on KVM VM when the host trusts it more than HPET and ACPI-P=
M is
foolproof imo.

It's obvious that the choice for this has been designed a long time ago and=
 has
been programmed this way because back then TSC really sucked and any hyperv=
isor
except for programmed by VMWare loophole is penalised (don't know though wh=
ich
because xen requires more workarounds in the kernel and I don't really know=
 how
bhyve runs it)..

So obviously this part of code should be reworked
if ((!smp_tsc && !tsc_is_invariant) || vm_guest)
        return (-100);

X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC is not checked at all (this is from linux, but sti=
ll
BSD does not check that in any case in its TSC code (or I might be misreadi=
ng
the magic tsc_is_invariant variable)). And most of all the vm_guest check
should go away. It's a terrible hack nowadays as this bug shows.

I did not try this yet but maybe something like this will help

if ((!smp_tsc && !tsc_is_invariant) || (vm_guest && vm_guest !=3D VM_GUEST_=
KVM))
        return (-100);

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