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From: Michael Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, gleb@redhat.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add a timer to allow the separation of consigned from steal time.
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:27:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5113B9D7.9090503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511369CC.6050405@parallels.com>

On 02/07/2013 02:46 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 02/06/2013 10:07 PM, Michael Wolf wrote:
>> On 02/06/2013 08:36 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> On 02/06/2013 01:49 AM, Michael Wolf wrote:
>>>> Add a helper routine to scheduler/core.c to allow the kvm module
>>>> to retrieve the cpu hardlimit settings.  The values will be used
>>>> to set up a timer that is used to separate the consigned from the
>>>> steal time.
>>> Sorry: What is the business of a timer in here?
>>> Whenever we read steal time, we know how much time has passed and with
>>> that information we can know the entitlement for the period. This breaks
>>> if we suspend, but we know that we suspended, so this is not a problem.
>> I may be missing something, but how do we know how much time has
>> passed?  That is why
>> I had the timer in there.  I will go look again at the code but I
>> thought the data was collected
>> as ticks and passed at random times.  The ticks are also accumulating so
>> we are looking at the
>> difference in the count between reads.....
> They can be collected at random times, but you can of course record the
> time in which it happened.
>
ok.  Let me add a previous_read field and take out the timer.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-07 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-05 21:49 [PATCH 0/4] Alter steal-time reporting in the guest Michael Wolf
2013-02-05 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] Alter the amount of steal time reported by " Michael Wolf
2013-02-05 21:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] Expand the steal time msr to also contain the consigned time Michael Wolf
2013-02-06 21:14   ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-07 14:25     ` Michael Wolf
2013-02-05 21:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add the code to send the consigned time from the host to the guest Michael Wolf
2013-02-06 21:18   ` Rik van Riel
2013-02-07 14:26     ` Michael Wolf
2013-02-05 21:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add a timer to allow the separation of consigned from steal time Michael Wolf
2013-02-06 14:36   ` Glauber Costa
2013-02-06 18:07     ` Michael Wolf
2013-02-07  8:46       ` Glauber Costa
2013-02-07 14:27         ` Michael Wolf [this message]
2013-02-18 23:57   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-05 20:17     ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-06  1:35       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 0/4] Alter steal-time reporting in the guest Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-19  1:11   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-05 20:22     ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-06  1:41       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-06  8:13         ` Glauber Costa
2013-03-06 16:29           ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-07  0:52             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-07  3:11               ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-07 20:23                 ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-06 16:27         ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-07  2:30           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-07 21:09             ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-07 21:15             ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-07 21:25               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-07 22:34                 ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-08  1:54                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-08  2:21                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-03-06 13:34       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-06 16:23         ` Michael Wolf
2013-03-06 13:20     ` Frederic Weisbecker

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