On Mon, 04 Jul 2011, Glauber Costa wrote: > To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information > about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM. > This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse > we decided not to make. > > In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that > holds the memory area address containing information about steal time > > This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate > backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the > hypervisor, or the other way around. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>
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