linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:59:29 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
Cc:     linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:34:38PM +0000, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patchset introduces steal time accounting support for
> the VMware guest. The idea and implementation of guest
> steal time support is similar to KVM ones and it is based
> on steal clock. The steal clock is a per CPU structure in
> a shared memory between hypervisor and guest, initialized
> by each CPU through hypercall. Steal clock is got updated
> by the hypervisor and read by the guest. 

...

>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c                    | 227 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Did you not see my reply to you the last time?

https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=158410546921328

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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