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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] kvm: Handle undercommitted guest case in PLE
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:10:01 +0530
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On 09/24/2012 05:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 17:30 +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> +unsigned long rq_nr_running(void)
>> +{
>> +       return this_rq()->nr_running;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rq_nr_running);
>
> Uhm,.. no, that's a horrible thing to export.
>

True.. I had the same fear :).  Other options I thought were something
like  nr_running()/num_online_cpus, this_cpu_load(), etc..

Could you please let me know, if we can rely some good metric to say,
system is not overcommitted/overcommitted?