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 16:14:50 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9A93A.2030400@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> <45F9A42D.7090205@goop.org> <45F9A788.1010008@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45F9A788.1010008@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: > 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 =3D=3D ready to run but not running > available time =3D=3D 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. -- = 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 S933795AbXCOUXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:23:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933798AbXCOUXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:23:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60494 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933795AbXCOUXG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9A93A.2030400@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:14:50 -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> <45F9A42D.7090205@goop.org> <45F9A788.1010008@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <45F9A788.1010008@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: > 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. -- 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.