Re: Steal time in KVM

2012-10-08 Thread Abhishek Gupta
n Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:47:59PM -0500, Abhishek Gupta wrote: >> I think this flag is enabled since I see that there is some information >> >> cat /proc/schedstat > > This is in the host? Then, yes, the host has schedstat enabled. > > Definition of steal time: the amou

Re: Steal time in KVM

2012-10-08 Thread Abhishek Gupta
31194 0 Abhishek On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Abhishek Gupta wrote: > Thanks for the answer. I am more of an application user. Is there a > quick way to check this flag and enable it if its disabled? > Abhishek > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >&

Re: Steal time in KVM

2012-10-08 Thread Abhishek Gupta
Thanks for the answer. I am more of an application user. Is there a quick way to check this flag and enable it if its disabled? Abhishek On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:55:25AM -0500, Abhishek Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I

Steal time in KVM

2012-10-08 Thread Abhishek Gupta
Hi, I am trying to get the steal time with 2 VMs (each with 1 Vcpu) pinned to same core. While finding documentation on this, I came across your patches and posts related to the implementation of this feature, so I thought it would be best to ask you. I run the same application on these 2 VMs si

Steal Cycles in KVM reported as 0

2012-10-07 Thread Abhishek Gupta
Hi, I am trying to get the steal time with 2 VMs (each with 1 Vcpu) pinned to same core. I run the same application on these 2 VMs simultaneously and see the performance difference. I am trying to read the steal time from inside the guest using top, vmstat etc. Both, top and vmstat -s report the