linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] KVM-HDR Add constant to represent KVM MSRs enabled bit

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:59:38 -0400
From:	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>, 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>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] KVM-HDR Add constant to represent KVM MSRs
 enabled bit

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 06/30/2011 12:56 AM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> >My mail provider seems to have dropped patch 1 of the series so I can't reply
> >directly to it, please add my Tested-by there as well.
> 
> How did you test it then?
> 

I built host and guest kernels with the patches and pinned a while(1) and the
CPU thread from qemu to CPU 2 on the host.  I then started the same while(1)
process in guest and verified that I see ~50% steal time reported.

I then built 2.6.39 (just the code I had present) on the guest and time it
while it was competing with the while(1) on the host for CPU time.  Next I
built the guest kernel with STEAL_TIME=N and reran the kernel compile to make
sure that there weren't any huge variations in performace.

Eric

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