From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:28:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4D436D28.2020407@redhat.com> References: <1296244340-15173-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1296244340-15173-2-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Peter Zijlstra , Avi Kivity To: Glauber Costa Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1296244340-15173-2-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 01/28/2011 02:52 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information > 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. > > In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that > holds the memory area address containing information about steal time > > This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate > backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the > hypervisor, or the other way around. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa > CC: Rik van Riel > CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge > CC: Peter Zijlstra > CC: Avi Kivity Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed