[illumos-Developer] "apic_timer_reprogram, request at ... too far in future" in VMware WS VM

[Yuri Pankov]

Hi,

>From time to time, I'm getting the following messages flooding my
console (and, eventually messages/dmesg):
[...]
May  2 07:26:58 illumos pcplusmp: [ID 624358 kern.notice] apic_timer_reprogram, request at  169431003906250  too far in future, current time  116670350666438
May  2 07:26:59 illumos pcplusmp: [ID 624358 kern.notice] apic_timer_reprogram, request at  169431003906250  too far in future, current time  116671350816257
May  2 07:26:59 illumos pcplusmp: [ID 624358 kern.notice] apic_timer_reprogram, request at  169431003906250  too far in future, current time  116671360828750
May  2 07:27:00 illumos pcplusmp: [ID 624358 kern.notice] apic_timer_reprogram, request at  169431003906250  too far in future, current time  116672300899495
[...]

I'm not sure how/why it is triggered, usually after a day or two,
workload doesn't seem to matter. The system is question is running
under VMware Workstation 7.1.4 (2/4 CPU cores, 4-8GB RAM, doesn't seem
to make difference).

Any hints on why it's happening or how can I debug it are appreciated. I
see that it's #ifdef'ed DEBUG in uts/i86pc/io/pcplusmp/apic_timer.c, but
knowing the source of problem would still be useful.


TIA,
Yuri