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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:48:05 -0400
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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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