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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add guest cpu_entitlement reporting
On 08/24/2012 03:14 AM, Michael Wolf wrote:
> This is an RFC regarding the reporting of stealtime. In the case of
> where you have a system that is running with partial processors such as
> KVM the user may see steal time being reported in accounting tools such
> as top or vmstat. This can cause confusion for the end user. To
> ease the confusion this patch set adds a sysctl interface to set the
> cpu entitlement. This is the percentage of cpu that the guest system is
> expected to receive. As long as the steal time is within its expected
> range it will show up as 0 in /proc/stat. The user will then see in the
> accounting tools that they are getting a full utilization of the cpu
> resources assigned to them.
>

And how is such a knob not confusing?

Steal time is pretty well defined in meaning and is shown in top for
ages. I really don't see the point for this.


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