From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] Separate consigned (expected steal) from steal time. Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:33:52 -0400 Message-ID: <50856760.2030507@redhat.com> References: <20121017022249.16949.2775.stgit@lambeau> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, glommer@parallels.com, mingo@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws To: Michael Wolf Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121017022249.16949.2775.stgit@lambeau> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 10/16/2012 10:23 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: > In the case of where you have a system that is running in a > capped or overcommitted environment the user may see steal time > being reported in accounting tools such as top or vmstat. This can > cause confusion for the end user. How do s390 and Power systems deal with reporting that kind of information? IMHO it would be good to see what those do, so we do not end up re-inventing the wheel, and confusing admins with yet another way of reporting the information... -- All rights reversed