Re: [PATCH 16/16] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 24 2011 - 14:52:42 EST
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:51 -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
> > I thought kvm had a ns resolution steal-time clock?
> Yes, the one I introduced earlier in this series is nsec. However, user
> and system will be accounted in usec at most, so there is no point in
> using nsec here.
Well, the scheduler accounts most things in ns these days -- some archs
even do user/sys time in ns -- using ticks is really very crude, esp
when you've got better information.
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