On 02/06/2013 10:07 PM, Michael Wolf wrote: > On 02/06/2013 08:36 AM, Glauber Costa wrote: >> On 02/06/2013 01:49 AM, Michael Wolf wrote: >>> Add a helper routine to scheduler/core.c to allow the kvm module >>> to retrieve the cpu hardlimit settings. The values will be used >>> to set up a timer that is used to separate the consigned from the >>> steal time. >> Sorry: What is the business of a timer in here? >> Whenever we read steal time, we know how much time has passed and with >> that information we can know the entitlement for the period. This breaks >> if we suspend, but we know that we suspended, so this is not a problem. > I may be missing something, but how do we know how much time has > passed? That is why > I had the timer in there. I will go look again at the code but I > thought the data was collected > as ticks and passed at random times. The ticks are also accumulating so > we are looking at the > difference in the count between reads..... They can be collected at random times, but you can of course record the time in which it happened. -- 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
