Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:33:26 -0400 | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation |
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On 06/13/2011 07:31 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. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa<glommer@redhat.com> > CC: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> > CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> > CC: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@infradead.org> > CC: Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> > CC: Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com> > CC: Eric B Munson<emunson@mgebm.net>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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