Re: [PATCH v5 7/9] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting

[Eric B Munson]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011, Glauber Costa wrote:

> This patch accounts steal time time in account_process_tick.
> If one or more tick is considered stolen in the current
> accounting cycle, user/system accounting is skipped. Idle is fine,
> since the hypervisor does not report steal time if the guest
> is halted.
> 
> Accounting steal time from the core scheduler give us the
> advantage of direct acess to the runqueue data. In a later
> opportunity, it can be used to tweak cpu power and make
> the scheduler aware of the time it lost.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>

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