On 08/24/2012 03:14 AM, Michael Wolf wrote: > This is an RFC regarding the reporting of stealtime. In the case of > where you have a system that is running with partial processors such as > KVM the user may see steal time being reported in accounting tools such > as top or vmstat. This can cause confusion for the end user. To > ease the confusion this patch set adds a sysctl interface to set the > cpu entitlement. This is the percentage of cpu that the guest system is > expected to receive. As long as the steal time is within its expected > range it will show up as 0 in /proc/stat. The user will then see in the > accounting tools that they are getting a full utilization of the cpu > resources assigned to them. > And how is such a knob not confusing? Steal time is pretty well defined in meaning and is shown in top for ages. I really don't see the point for this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
