Re: [PATCH 16/16] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power

[Glauber Costa]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 20:51 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:51 -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > I would really much rather see you change update_rq_clock_task() and
> > > subtract your ns resolution steal time from our wall-time,
> > > update_rq_clock_task() already updates the cpu_power relative to the
> > > remaining time available.
> > 
> > But then we get into the problems we already discussed in previous
> > submissions, which is, we don't really want to alter any notion of
> > wallclock time. Could you list any more concrete advantages of the
> > specific way you proposed? 
> 
> clock_task is the time spend on the task, by not taking steal time into
> account all steal time is accounted as service to whatever task was
> current when the vcpu wasn't running.
> 
> It doesn't change wall-time in the sense of gtod, only the service time
> to tasks.
Ok, I'll experiment with that and see how it goes.

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