linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/11] VMI / Paravirt bugfixes for 2.6.21

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Message-Id: <1170752856.7324.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:07:36 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] VMI / Paravirt bugfixes for 2.6.21

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 16:11 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:54 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Indeed, I'm expecting to push lguest this week, and this code will
> > > effect me, so I'd like to see this in a -mm soon...
> > 
> > Yes, I took a look at the lguest changes today and I think these won't 
> > generate conflicts, just make stuff easier for you ;)  Course you've now 
> > got a couple new paravirt-ops to support, but the native ones are fine 
> > for temporary use.
> 
> Implementing stolen time is something I'd like to do, since it'd be a
> nice self-contained example the expectations.


hmm stolen time could even be useful without virtualization; to a large
degree, if cpufreq reduces the speed of your cpu you have "stolen
cycles" that way... I wonder if this concept can be used for that as
well...


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