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Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers
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Dan Hecht wrote:

> Available time is defined to be (real_time - stolen_time).  i.e. time in 
> which the vcpu is either running or not ready to run [because it is 
> halted, and nothing is pending]).

 From the guest perspective, steal time is:

"Time I would have liked to run"

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