Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] KVM-HV: KVM Steal time implementation

[Rik van Riel]

On 07/04/2011 11:32 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest
> information about how much time was spent running other processes
> outside the VM, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
> time does not count.
>
> This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
> delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
> runqueue but not running.
>
> Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
> infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
> memory area address containing information about steal time
>
> This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
> and can be backported independently of the guest portion.
>
> 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>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>


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