21.04.2017, 19:19, "Stephen Brennan" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, Hello, > I was wondering if anyone had some information on how CPU time used by the > kernel is accounted for, e.g. in top or htop. I would imagine that kernel code > running in process code would be "billed" toward that process. What about kernel > worker threads (for example, work_structs queued for later)? > > My overall goal is that I'm doing some large-scale network emulation, and I want > to ensure that the kernel is not using too much CPU time, otherwise the CPU > overhead may be messing with the results. I written to the code for myself, you can use and develop this code (open source). https://github.com/mueddib/cpustat > Thanks, > Stephen Regards, Ozgur _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies