Re: Use virtual cpu accounting if available for guest times.

Avi Kivity
2007-10-18T12:41:57Z

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> ppc and s390 offer the possibility to track process times precisely
> by looking at cpu timer on every context switch, irq, softirq etc.
> We can use that infrastructure as well for guest time accounting.
> We need to account the used time before we change the state.
> This patch adds a call to account_system_vtime to kvm_guest_enter
> and kvm_guest exit. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not set,
> account_system_vtime is defined in hardirq.h as an empty function,
> which means this patch does not change the behaviour on other
> platforms.
>
> I compile tested this patch on x86 and function tested the patch on
> s390.
>
> Avi, please apply.
>
>

Done. Thanks!

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