From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Michael Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, glommer@parallels.com,
mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add guest cpu_entitlement reporting
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:55:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <503BC298.3080306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120823231346.11681.1502.stgit@lambeau>
On 08/23/2012 04:14 PM, Michael Wolf wrote:
> This is an RFC regarding the reporting of stealtime. In the case of
> where you have a system that is running with partial processors such as
> KVM the user may see steal time being reported in accounting tools such
> as top or vmstat. This can cause confusion for the end user. To
> ease the confusion this patch set adds a sysctl interface to set the
> cpu entitlement. This is the percentage of cpu that the guest system is
> expected to receive. As long as the steal time is within its expected
> range it will show up as 0 in /proc/stat. The user will then see in the
> accounting tools that they are getting a full utilization of the cpu
> resources assigned to them.
>
> This patchset is changing the contents/output of /proc/stat and could affect
> user tools. However the default setting is that the cpu is entitled to 100%
> so the code will act as before. Also another field could be added to the
> /proc/stat output and show the unaltered steal time. Since this additional
> field could cause more confusion than it would clear up I have left it out
> for now.
>
How would a guest know what its entitlement is?
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-23 23:14 [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add guest cpu_entitlement reporting Michael Wolf
2012-08-23 23:14 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] Add a sysctl interface to control and report the cpu entitlement setting Michael Wolf
2012-08-23 23:14 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] Add a hypercall to retrieve the cpu entitlement value from the host Michael Wolf
2012-08-23 23:14 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] Modify the amount of stealtime that the kernel reports via the /proc interface Michael Wolf
2012-08-24 4:53 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add guest cpu_entitlement reporting Glauber Costa
2012-08-24 15:11 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-25 23:36 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-27 15:50 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-27 18:50 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-27 20:19 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-27 20:51 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-27 18:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-27 20:23 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-27 20:31 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 21:27 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-27 21:41 ` Glauber Costa
2012-08-27 21:53 ` Michael Wolf
2012-08-27 21:52 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-28 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
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