From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:14:50 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9A93A.2030400@redhat.com> References: <45F6D1D0.6080905@goop.org> <1173816769.22180.14.camel@localhost> <45F70A71.9090205@goop.org> <1173821224.1416.24.camel@dwalker1> <45F71EA5.2090203@goop.org> <45F74515.7010808@vmware.com> <45F77C27.8090604@goop.org> <45F846AB.6060200@vmware.com> <45F84E39.7030507@goop.org> <45F85A62.8050001@vmware.com> <45F85BBB.70707@goop.org> <45F85F43.9030803@vmware.com> <45F866AF.9060609@goop.org> <45F999D4.6080602@vmware.com> <45F9A42D.7090205@goop.org> <45F9A788.1010008@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45F9A788.1010008@vmware.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Dan Hecht Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, john stultz , paulus@au.ibm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Con Kolivas , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Dan Hecht wrote: > Yes, the part in the "i.e." above is describing available time. So, it = > is essentially is the same definition of stolen time VMI uses: > stolen time =3D=3D ready to run but not running > available time =3D=3D running or not ready to run S390 too. We were quite careful to make sure that steal time means the same on the different platforms when the code was introduced. -- = Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic.