On 01/28/2011 09:52 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
Register steal time within KVM. Everytime we sample the steal time
information, we update a local variable that tells what was the
last time read. We then account the difference.
static void kvm_guest_cpu_offline(void *dummy)
{
kvm_pv_disable_apf(NULL);
+ native_write_msr(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, 0, 0);
apf_task_wake_all();
}
Don't use the native_ versions, they override the pvops implementation.
It doesn't matter for kvm, but we're not supposed to know this.
+ /*
+ * using nanoseconds introduces noise, which accumulates easily
+ * leading to big steal time values. We want, however, to keep the
+ * interface nanosecond-based for future-proofness. The hypervisor may
+ * adopt a similar strategy, but we can't rely on that.
+ */
+ delta /= NSEC_PER_MSEC;
+ delta *= NSEC_PER_MSEC;
You're working around this problem both in the guest and host. So even
if we fix it in one, it will still be broken in the other.
+
+ return delta;
+}
+
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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