From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755164Ab2JVPek (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:34:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16540 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751555Ab2JVPei (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: <50856760.2030507@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:33:52 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Wolf CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, glommer@parallels.com, mingo@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] Separate consigned (expected steal) from steal time. References: <20121017022249.16949.2775.stgit@lambeau> In-Reply-To: <20121017022249.16949.2775.stgit@lambeau> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/16/2012 10:23 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: > In the case of where you have a system that is running in a > capped or overcommitted environment the user may see steal time > being reported in accounting tools such as top or vmstat. This can > cause confusion for the end user. How do s390 and Power systems deal with reporting that kind of information? IMHO it would be good to see what those do, so we do not end up re-inventing the wheel, and confusing admins with yet another way of reporting the information... -- All rights reversed