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SubjectRe: [PATCH 14/16] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration
On 01/24/2011 08:25 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 18:31 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> On 01/24/2011 01:06 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> Register steal time within KVM. Everytime we sample the steal time
>>> information, we update a local variable that tells what was the
>>> last time read. We then account the difference.
>>>
>>> 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>
>>
>> On second thought - how does this deal with cpu hotplug and
>> hot unplug?
>>
>> Do you allocate a new one of these structs every time a cpu
>> is hot unplugged and then hotplugged, leaking the old one?
>>
>> Will leaving the old value around confuse the steal time
>> calculation?
>
> If you look closely, there are no allocations happening at all,
> it's all static.

In that case, does the per-cpu steal area need to be
reinitialized at hotplug time?

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