Re: [RFC 4/7] change kernel accounting to include steal time

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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:40:36PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:14:47PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 08/26/2010 03:28 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > >
> > >>+   if (delta>  1000UL)
> > >>+               touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> > >>+
> > >>
> > >>This will break authentic soft lockup detection whenever qemu processing
> > >>takes more than 1s.
> > >This should be 10s. 1000UL is a typo.
> > 
> > I was wondering that when I first saw the patch..  10s is the
> > default detection time but it's actually run time configurable so
> > hard coding 10s is not correct.

This is not what i'm referring to. The code above will disable
softlockup detection in case of a vcpu blocked in qemu for longer than
softlockup threshold, which is a legitimate case.

> 
> Indeed, you are right.
> 
> Thanks

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