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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Abhishek Gupta <gupta59@illinois.edu>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Steal time in KVM
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:02:23 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121008200223.GG18648@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAFDJAz4eSnQkVjWBNb_6N=Ja+SyFjciV51mk+2AVqKG8emq9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:47:59PM -0500, Abhishek Gupta wrote:
> I think this flag is enabled since I see that there is some information
> 
> cat /proc/schedstat

This is in the host? Then, yes, the host has schedstat enabled.

Definition of steal time: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not
run.

So with some CPU load on the host system, you should see "steal time"
!= 0 in the guest system.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-08 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-08  7:55 Steal time in KVM Abhishek Gupta
2012-10-08 19:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-08 19:42   ` Abhishek Gupta
2012-10-08 19:47     ` Abhishek Gupta
2012-10-08 20:02       ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2012-10-08 20:06         ` Abhishek Gupta

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