Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/2][KVM] guest time accounting
From: Avi Kivity <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-13 08:38:15
Laurent Vivier wrote:
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- perhaps the new fields should be guarded by a #ifdef CONFIG_HYPERVISOR (selected by CONFIG_KVM)? that way the (minor) additional overhead is only incurred if it can possibly be used. I imagine that our canine cousin will want to use this as well.There is also a CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION and a CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING (from s390 and powerpc) Which one to use ?
Are these options for using the kernel as a guest or host? I'd guess the former.
I'm wondering if we can have a more accurate accounting: - For the moment we add all system time since the previous entering to the VCPU to the guest time (and I guess there is some real system time in it ???) - Perhaps we can sum nanoseconds spent in the VCPU and add it to cpustat when these ns are greater than 1 ms ? (I'm trying to make something in this way)
I think that it's okay to use the same method as user/system time accounting. But Ingo the the right man to ask. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function