[rhelv6-list] Clocksource tsc unstable

[carlopmart]

Hi all,

  I have installed two rhel6 (fully patched) i386 guests under a x86_64 
rhel6 kvm host.

  When both guests boots up shows me the following error:

# dmesg | egrep -i 'clock|tsc|time'
kvm-clock: Using msrs 12 and 11
kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:ac2021, boot clock
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xb008
kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:2809021, primary cpu clock
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Switching to clocksource kvm-clock
rtc_cmos 00:01: setting system clock to 2011-04-16 14:50:05 UTC (1302965405)
ata_piix 0000:00:01.1: setting latency timer to 64
SELinux:  Disabled at runtime.
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -110919016 ns)

  Why?? Guests needs to run kvm-clock, correct??

# cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
kvm-clock acpi_pm

Kernel version on host:

# uname -a
Linux saruman.hpulabs.org 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 11 
09:40:58 CEST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

/proc/cpuinfo on host:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 16
model		: 2
model name	: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1354
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 2200.289
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb 
rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid 
pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm 
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock
bogomips	: 4400.57
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 16
model		: 2
model name	: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1354
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 2200.289
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb 
rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid 
pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm 
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock
bogomips	: 4400.09
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor	: 2
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 16
model		: 2
model name	: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1354
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 2200.289
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 2
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb 
rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid 
pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm 
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock
bogomips	: 4399.99
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

processor	: 3
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 16
model		: 2
model name	: Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1354
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 2200.289
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 3
cpu cores	: 4
apicid		: 3
initial apicid	: 3
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb 
rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid 
pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm 
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs npt lbrv svm_lock
bogomips	: 4399.99
TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

Can somebody helps me??

Thanks.

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CL Martinez
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