-----Original Message-----
From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:11 AM
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@...>; devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@...>; Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...>; xen-devel@...;
Gao, Liming <liming.gao@...>; Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.justen@...>; Julien Grall <julien@...>; Feng, Bob C
<bob.c.feng@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] MdePkg: Allow PcdFSBClock to by Dynamic

On 01/29/20 13:12, Anthony PERARD wrote:

We are going to want to change the value of PcdFSBClock at run time in
OvmfXen, so move it to the PcdsDynamic section.

Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2490
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@...>
---
CC: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@...>
CC: Liming Gao <liming.gao@...>
---
MdePkg/MdePkg.dec | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MdePkg/MdePkg.dec b/MdePkg/MdePkg.dec
index d022cc5e3ef2..8f5a48346e50 100644
--- a/MdePkg/MdePkg.dec
+++ b/MdePkg/MdePkg.dec
@@ -2194,10 +2194,6 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild,PcdsPatchableInModule]
# @ValidList 0x80000001 | 8, 16, 32
gEfiMdePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPort80DataWidth|8|UINT8|0x0000002d

- ## This value is used to configure X86 Processor FSB clock.
- # @Prompt FSB Clock.
- gEfiMdePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFSBClock|200000000|UINT32|0x0000000c
-
## The maximum printable number of characters. UefLib functions: AsciiPrint(), AsciiErrorPrint(),
# PrintXY(), AsciiPrintXY(), Print(), ErrorPrint() base on this PCD value to print characters.
# @Prompt Maximum Printable Number of Characters.
@@ -2297,5 +2293,9 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild, PcdsPatchableInModule, PcdsDynamic, PcdsDynamicEx]
# @Prompt Boot Timeout (s)
gEfiMdePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPlatformBootTimeOut|0xffff|UINT16|0x0000002c

+ ## This value is used to configure X86 Processor FSB clock.
+ # @Prompt FSB Clock.
+ gEfiMdePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFSBClock|200000000|UINT32|0x0000000c
+
[UserExtensions.TianoCore."ExtraFiles"]
MdePkgExtra.uni

Looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...>

Mike or Liming will have to ACK.

Thanks!
Laszlo

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Anthony PERARD
Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:26 AM
To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@...>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...>; devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@...>; Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...>; xen-devel@...; Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.justen@...>; Julien Grall
<julien@...>; Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng@...>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 2/5] MdePkg: Allow PcdFSBClock to by Dynamic

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 03:34:07PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:34:55AM +0000, Gao, Liming wrote:

Anthony:
This change is OK to me. But if this PCD is configured as Dynamic, its value will be got from PCD service. This operation will take

some time and cause the inaccurate time delay. Have you measured its impact?

No, I haven't. But I don't think it matter in a Xen guest, the APIC timer is
emulated anyway, so reading from a register of the APIC is going to be
slower than getting the value from the PCD services, I think.
(Hopefully, I'm not too wrong.)

But I'll give it at measuring the difference, it would be interesting to
know.

Now that I've given a try, having the value as Dynamic doesn't change
anything in a Xen guest.

On my test machine, simply running GetPerformanceCounter (); takes
between 10000 ns and 20000 ns. Reading the dynamic value from PCD on the
other hand takes about 350ns. (10ns if it's static.)

When I run NanoSecondDelay() with different values, I have:
- with static pcd:
63894 ns to delay by 1 ns
66611 ns to delay by 10 ns
43927 ns to delay by 100 ns
71367 ns to delay by 1000 ns
55881 ns to delay by 10000 ns
147716 ns to delay by 100000 ns
1048335 ns to delay by 1000000 ns
10041179 ns to delay by 10000000 ns
- with a dynamic pcd:
40949 ns to delay by 1 ns
84832 ns to delay by 10 ns
82745 ns to delay by 100 ns
59848 ns to delay by 1000 ns
52647 ns to delay by 10000 ns
137051 ns to delay by 100000 ns
1042492 ns to delay by 1000000 ns
10036306 ns to delay by 10000000 ns

So, the kind of PCD used for PcdFSBClock on Xen (with OvmfXen) doesn't
really matter.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

--
Anthony PERARD