From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
John stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
"jeremy.fitzhardinge" <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:50:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289843441.2109.520.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101115184206.4463fd05@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 18:42 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> The steal time of a task tells us how much more progress a task could have
> done if the hypervisor would not steal cpu. Now you could argue that the
> steal time for a cpu is good enough for that purpose but steal time is not
> necessarily uniform over all tasks. And we already do calculate this number,
> we just do not store it right now.
If you make the scheduler take steal time into account like Jeremy
proposed then you schedule on serviced time and the steal time gain is
proportional to the existing service distribution.
Still, then you know, then what are you going to do about it? Are you
going to avoid the hypervisor from scheduling when that one task is
running?
What good is knowing something you cannot do anything about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-15 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-11 17:03 [RFC][PATCH v2 0/7] taskstats: Enhancements for precise process accounting (version 2) Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 1/7] taskstats: Add new taskstats command TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PIDS Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 15:53 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-15 16:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:09 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-15 17:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 12:16 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-13 19:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-13 20:00 ` Balbir Singh
2010-11-15 14:50 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 2/7] taskstats: Add "/proc/taskstats" Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 3/7] taskstats: Add thread group ID to taskstats structure Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 19:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 14:50 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 15:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 17:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-11-15 17:59 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 18:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 8:51 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 15:33 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 15:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 16:05 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 18:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-16 16:38 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 16:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 16:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-16 17:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 5/7] taskstats: Improve cumulative CPU " Michael Holzheu
2010-11-13 18:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-15 15:55 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 16:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 17:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 17:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-15 18:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-15 18:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 8:54 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-11-16 16:57 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-18 17:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-19 19:46 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 17:34 ` Michael Holzheu
2010-11-16 17:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-18 16:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-11-11 17:03 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 6/7] taskstats: Fix accounting for non-leader thread exec Michael Holzheu
2010-11-11 17:11 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 7/7] taskstats: Precise process accounting user space Michael Holzheu
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