Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/2][KVM] guest time accounting

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 09:13:17 EST


Laurent Vivier wrote:
- perhaps the new fields should be guarded by a #ifdef CONFIG_HYPERVISOR
(selected by CONFIG_KVM)? that way the (minor) additional overhead is
only incurred if it can possibly be used. I imagine that our canine
cousin will want to use this as well.

There is also a CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION and a CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING (from
s390 and powerpc) Which one to use ?

Are these options for using the kernel as a guest or host? I'd guess the former.

I'm wondering if we can have a more accurate accounting:

- For the moment we add all system time since the previous entering to the VCPU
to the guest time (and I guess there is some real system time in it ???)

- Perhaps we can sum nanoseconds spent in the VCPU and add it to cpustat when
these ns are greater than 1 ms ? (I'm trying to make something in this way)

I think that it's okay to use the same method as user/system time accounting. But Ingo the the right man to ask.


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