Re: report stolen time via pvclock?

Marcelo Tosatti
2010-03-09T21:31:42Z

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:47:38PM +0100, Thomas Treutner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm referring to this patchset
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23810.html
>
> of Marcelo Tosatti. It seems it was never included or even discussed, although
> it's nearly half a year old. I wonder if there is a good reason for that? I'd
> like to use the steal time for my VMs, as I consider it useful in some cases.

There is a problem with it: stolen time is accounted separately (in
addition to) user/system/idle.

And as you noted there seems to be lack of interest in the feature.