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, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
> time does not count.
> 
> This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
> delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
> runqueue but not running.
> 
> Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
> infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
> memory area address containing information about steal time
> 
> This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
> and can be backported independently of the guest portion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glom...@redhat.com>
> CC: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardi...@citrix.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> CC: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
> CC: Eric B Munson <emun...@mgebm.net>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emun...@mgebm.net>

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