Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting

[Glauber Costa]

On 06/30/2011 06:54 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:29 -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > This patch accounts steal time time in kernel/sched.
> > I kept it from last proposal, because I still see advantages
> > in it: Doing it here will give us easier access from scheduler
> > variables such as the cpu rq. The next patch shows an example of
> > usage for it.
> >
> > Since functions like account_idle_time() can be called from
> > multiple places, not only account_process_tick(), steal time
> > grabbing is repeated in each account function separatedely.
>
> That changelog is so going to frustrate someone trying to re-create your
> thinking in a year's time. They really don't care about the last
> proposals and the next patch.

You're right. I'll review all changelogs and rewrite them as needed.
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