From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9A2F5.50206@redhat.com> References: <45F6D1D0.6080905@goop.org> <1173816769.22180.14.camel@localhost> <45F70A71.9090205@goop.org> <1173821224.1416.24.camel@dwalker1> <45F71EA5.2090203@goop.org> <45F74515.7010808@vmware.com> <45F77C27.8090604@goop.org> <45F846AB.6060200@vmware.com> <45F84E39.7030507@goop.org> <45F85A62.8050001@vmware.com> <45F85BBB.70707@goop.org> <45F85F43.9030803@vmware.com> <45F866AF.9060609@goop.org> <45F999D4.6080602@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45F999D4.6080602@vmware.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dan Hecht Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, john stultz , paulus@au.ibm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Dan Hecht wrote: > Available time is defined to be (real_time - stolen_time). i.e. time in = > which the vcpu is either running or not ready to run [because it is = > halted, and nothing is pending]). From the guest perspective, steal time is: "Time I would have liked to run" -- = Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933235AbXCOTwu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:52:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933238AbXCOTwu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:52:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50349 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933235AbXCOTws (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:52:48 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9A2F5.50206@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:48:05 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Hecht CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , dwalker@mvista.com, cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , john stultz , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , paulus@au.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Zachary Amsden Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers References: <45F6D1D0.6080905@goop.org> <1173816769.22180.14.camel@localhost> <45F70A71.9090205@goop.org> <1173821224.1416.24.camel@dwalker1> <45F71EA5.2090203@goop.org> <45F74515.7010808@vmware.com> <45F77C27.8090604@goop.org> <45F846AB.6060200@vmware.com> <45F84E39.7030507@goop.org> <45F85A62.8050001@vmware.com> <45F85BBB.70707@goop.org> <45F85F43.9030803@vmware.com> <45F866AF.9060609@goop.org> <45F999D4.6080602@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <45F999D4.6080602@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Hecht wrote: > Available time is defined to be (real_time - stolen_time). i.e. time in > which the vcpu is either running or not ready to run [because it is > halted, and nothing is pending]). From the guest perspective, steal time is: "Time I would have liked to run" -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic.