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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	dwalker@mvista.com, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	paulus@au.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:14:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F9A93A.2030400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F9A788.1010008@vmware.com>

Dan Hecht wrote:

> Yes, the part in the "i.e." above is describing available time.  So, it 
> is essentially is the same definition of stolen time VMI uses:

> stolen time     == ready to run but not running
> available time  == running or not ready to run

S390 too.  We were quite careful to make sure that steal time
means the same on the different platforms when the code was
introduced.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-13 16:31 Stolen and degraded time and schedulers Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-13 20:12 ` john stultz
2007-03-13 20:32   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-13 21:27     ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-13 21:59       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  0:43         ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14  4:37           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 13:58             ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 15:08               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 15:12                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-03-14 19:02             ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 19:34               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 19:45                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-14 19:47                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:02                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-14 20:26                 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 20:31                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:46                     ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-14 21:18                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 19:09                         ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-15 19:18                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 19:48                           ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-15 19:53                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15 20:07                             ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-15 20:14                               ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-03-15 20:35                                 ` Dan Hecht
2007-03-16  8:59                                   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-03-14 20:38                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-14 20:59                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-16  8:38                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-16 16:53                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-15  5:23                 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-15 19:33                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  2:00         ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14  6:52           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14  8:20             ` Zan Lynx
2007-03-14 16:11             ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 16:37               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 16:59                 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 17:08                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 18:06                     ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 18:41                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 19:00                         ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 19:44                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 20:33                             ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 21:16                               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:34                                 ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-14 21:42                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:36 ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-14 21:38   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-14 21:40   ` Con Kolivas

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