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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:26:59 -0500 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> To: Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com> CC: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aliguori@...ibm.com, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration On 01/24/2011 08:25 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 18:31 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: >> On 01/24/2011 01:06 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: >>> Register steal time within KVM. Everytime we sample the steal time >>> information, we update a local variable that tells what was the >>> last time read. We then account the difference. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa<glommer@...hat.com> >>> CC: Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com> >>> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com> >>> CC: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@...radead.org> >>> CC: Avi Kivity<avi@...hat.com> >> >> On second thought - how does this deal with cpu hotplug and >> hot unplug? >> >> Do you allocate a new one of these structs every time a cpu >> is hot unplugged and then hotplugged, leaking the old one? >> >> Will leaving the old value around confuse the steal time >> calculation? > > If you look closely, there are no allocations happening at all, > it's all static. In that case, does the per-cpu steal area need to be reinitialized at hotplug time? -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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