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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/4]Introduce "account modifiers" mechanism
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:39:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187303955.6449.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C4740F.2050701@bull.net>

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:58 +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> [PATCH 3/3] introduce "account modifiers" mechanism in the kernel allowing a
> module to modify the collected accounting for a given task. This implementation
> is based on the "preempt_notifier". "account_system_time()" and
> "account_user_time()" can call functions registered by a module to modify the
> cputime value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>


Hi Laurent,

	This seems a little like overkill.  Why not just add an
"account_guest_time" which subtracts the given amount of time from
system time (if available) and adds it to guest time?  Then kvm (and
lguest) should just need to call this at the right times.

Am I missing something?
Rusty.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46C4719A.2060308@bull.net>
2007-08-16 15:57 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/4]Introduce a new field "guest" in cpustat Laurent Vivier
     [not found] ` <46C4720F.7030304@bull.net>
2007-08-16 15:57   ` [PATCH/RFC 2/4]Introduce a new field "guest" in task_struct Laurent Vivier
     [not found]   ` <46C4725A.4070607@bull.net>
2007-08-16 15:58     ` [PATCH/RFC 3/4]Introduce "account modifiers" mechanism Laurent Vivier
2007-08-16 22:39       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-08-17  7:35         ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-17  8:30           ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-17  9:16             ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-17 11:51               ` [PATCH/RFC 3/4, second shot]Introduce "account_guest_time" Laurent Vivier
2007-08-17 11:54                 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/4, second shot]KVM uses "account_guest_time()" Laurent Vivier
2007-08-17 13:03                   ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2007-08-17 13:16                     ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-19  7:39                       ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-17 12:59                 ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 3/4, second shot]Introduce "account_guest_time" Avi Kivity
2007-08-17 12:55               ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH/RFC 3/4]Introduce "account modifiers" mechanism Avi Kivity
2007-08-17 13:08                 ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-17 13:32                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-08-19  7:41                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-17 14:12                 ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-19  7:38                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-20  7:30                     ` Laurent Vivier
2007-08-20  7:55                       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <46C472D2.7000702@bull.net>
2007-08-16 15:59       ` [PATCH/RFC 4/4]Modify KVM to use the "account modifiers" Laurent Vivier

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