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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	John stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	"jeremy.fitzhardinge" <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:06:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE2BA2F.6010306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE2B7CC.9010708@redhat.com>

On 11/16/2010 06:56 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/16/2010 06:43 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>>> No.  Hypercalls are voluntary and known, but most exits are involuntary
>>> and unknown to the guest.  Any memory access can generate a page fault,
>>> and any host interrupt will exit the guest.
>> Right, but we could not make the guest jump to a special stub on vcpu
>> enter? I guess we could simply because we have the hypervisor under
>> control.
>
> No, some entries inject an interrupt or exception, so the next rip 
> value is unknown (without doing a lot of extra slow calculations).

Also, consider an exit within the stub (if the stub is paged out, for 
example).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 17:03 [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] taskstats: Enhancements for precise process accounting (version 2) Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 1/7] taskstats: Add new taskstats command TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PIDS Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 19:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 15:53     ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-15 16:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:09         ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-15 17:21           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 12:16             ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 12:36               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-13 19:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-13 20:00     ` Balbir Singh
2010-11-15 14:50     ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 2/7] taskstats: Add "/proc/taskstats" Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 3/7] taskstats: Add thread group ID to taskstats structure Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 19:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 14:50     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 15:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:42         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 17:45           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:48           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:50           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:59             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 18:08               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16  8:51                 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 12:16                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 15:33                     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 15:45                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 16:05                         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 18:39                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-16 16:38                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 16:43                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 16:56                             ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 17:06                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 5/7] taskstats: Improve cumulative CPU " Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 18:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-15 15:55     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 16:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:49         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 17:51           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 18:00             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 18:10               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16  8:54                 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 16:57     ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-18 17:10       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-19 19:46         ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 17:34     ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 17:50       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-18 16:34       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 6/7] taskstats: Fix accounting for non-leader thread exec Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:11 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] taskstats: Precise process accounting user space Michael Holzheu

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