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

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Message-Id: <1170765952.7324.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:45:52 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	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 13:25 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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...

> 
> I don't see the point, frankly.

I mean for showing the sysadmin that his system has spare capacity left.

right now top shows 50% in use (at say 600Mhz) while the 2.8Ghz
processor obviously isn't even nearly half loaded.


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