From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm-vmx: add module parameter to avoid trapping HLT instructions (v2) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:19:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4CF9F9A2.9000107@redhat.com> References: <1291298357-5695-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <20101202191416.GQ10050@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20101203115752.GD27994@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101203162731.GA11725@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101203172906.GD10050@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20101203175744.GE13515@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101203175854.GF10050@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <4CF931D3.6000204@codemonkey.ws> <20101203181228.GF13515@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Chris Wright , Anthony Liguori , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti To: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17910 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754664Ab0LDIUL (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2010 03:20:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20101203181228.GF13515@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/03/2010 08:12 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:07:15PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > My first reaction is that it's not terribly important to account the > > non-idle time in the guest because of the use-case for this model. > > Agreed ...but I was considering the larger user-base who may be surprised to see > their VMs being reported as 100% hogs when they had left it idle. The larger user base won't enable this option. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.