From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:49:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFDC63B.3000209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308262856-5779-3-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>
On 06/17/2011 01:20 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information
> about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
> This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
> we decided not to make.
>
> In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
> holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
>
> This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate
> backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
> hypervisor, or the other way around.
>
>
> index d079aed..79c12a7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -185,3 +185,36 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
>
> Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as
> type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that.
> +
> +MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
> +
> + data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be
> + in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to
> + hold a copy of the following structure:
> +
> + struct kvm_steal_time {
> + __u64 steal;
> + __u32 version;
> + __u32 flags;
> + __u32 pad[6];
Should be 12 to be a 64-byte structure, no?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-19 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-16 22:20 [PATCH v2 0/7] Steal time for KVM Glauber Costa
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM-HDR Add constant to represent KVM MSRs enabled bit Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:47 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:48 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-19 9:49 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-06-20 2:55 ` Glauber Costa
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] KVM-HV: " Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:48 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-19 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 2:53 ` Glauber Costa
2011-06-20 6:02 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 20:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-06-28 12:30 ` Glauber Costa
2011-06-28 18:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM-GST: Add a pv_ops stub for steal time Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:48 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:48 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-19 10:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-20 2:38 ` Glauber Costa
2011-06-20 6:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:49 ` Eric B Munson
2011-06-19 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2011-06-16 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration Glauber Costa
2011-06-17 0:49 ` Eric B Munson
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