From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
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-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:39:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE2CFDC.4070402@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116170549.05d9e5c6@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On 11/16/2010 08:05 AM, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
>>> Yes and no. The tracepoint idea looks interesting in itself. But that does
>>> not completely replace the per-task steal time. The hypervisor can take
>>> away the cpu anytime, it is still interesting to know which task was hit
>>> hardest by that. You could view the cpu time lost by a hypercall as
>>> "synchronous" steal time for the task, the remaining delta to the total
>>> per-task steal time as "asynchronous" steal time.
>> Right, so there is no way the guest knows about the vcpu getting
>> scheduled, it can only derive the fact from hardware clocks after the
>> fact?
> Correct.
Yes, same for Xen.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 18:39 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 [this message]
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
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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