From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:48:15 -0400
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	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Glauber Costa wrote:

> To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest informa=
tion
> about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
> This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
> we decided not to make.
>=20
> In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
> holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
>=20
> This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facil=
itate
> backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
> hypervisor, or the other way around.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> CC: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>


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