linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting

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Message-ID: <4D5A8F28.4090306@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:35:20 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting

On 02/11/2011 08:19 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> This patch accounts steal time time in kernel/sched.
> I kept it from last proposal, because I still see advantages
> in it: Doing it here will give us easier access from scheduler
> variables such as the cpu rq. The next patch shows an example of
> usage for it.
>
> Since functions like account_idle_time() can be called from
> multiple places, not only account_process_tick(), steal time
> grabbing is repeated in each account function separatedely.
>

I still don't see how we export this to userspace for top(1) and friends.

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