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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:46:33 -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 v2 2/6] KVM-HV: KVM Steal time implementation On 01/28/2011 02:52 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information > about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM. > This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse > we decided not to make. > > In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that > holds the memory area address containing information about steal time > > This patch contains the hypervisor part for it. I am keeping it separate from > the headers to facilitate backports to people who wants to backport the kernel > part but not the hypervisor, or the other way around. > > 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> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> -- 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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