From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [RFC v2 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:20:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1283196005.1820.1340.camel@laptop> References: <1283184391-7785-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-2-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-3-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-4-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-5-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-6-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-7-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1283184391-7785-8-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <4C7BEA9C.1060605@goop.org> <4C7BFACD.4030409@redhat.com> <4C7C0187.7040401@goop.org> <4C7C03CB.1060700@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Glauber Costa , kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, zamsden@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu To: Rik van Riel Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:56511 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754002Ab0H3TUN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:20:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C7C03CB.1060700@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:17 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > When time is accounted as steal time, it is NOT accounted as > to the current process user/system/..., which in turn should > help it in the scheduler. > > Am I overlooking something? Yeah, the scheduler doesn't care about the user/system time accounting at all... :-)