lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Feb]   [15]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/6] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
On 02/11/2011 08:19 PM, 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.
> This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
> we decided not to make.
>
> In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
> holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
>
> This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate
> backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
> hypervisor, or the other way around.
>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm.h b/include/linux/kvm.h
> index ea2dc1a..233374a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_pvinfo {
> #define KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_PVINFO 57
> #define KVM_CAP_PPC_IRQ_LEVEL 58
> #define KVM_CAP_ASYNC_PF 59
> +#define KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME 60
>
> #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>

This isn't related to the guest/host interface and should come with the
hypervisor patch.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-02-15 15:41    [W:0.157 / U:0.112 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site