linux-kernel - Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:14:50 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, dwalker@...sta.com,
	cpufreq@...ts.linux.org.uk,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, paulus@...ibm.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers

Dan Hecht wrote:

> Yes, the part in the "i.e." above is describing available time.  So, it 
> is essentially is the same definition of stolen time VMI uses:

> stolen time     == ready to run but not running
> available time  == running or not ready to run

S390 too.  We were quite careful to make sure that steal time
means the same on the different platforms when the code was
introduced.

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