# Re: \[PATCH v13 11/13\] virt/steal\_governor: Add control knobs for handling steal values

- From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
- Date: 2026-09-09 14:06:47 
- List: virtualization
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/virtualization/2026/09/17539211
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/virtualization/2026/09/17538960/t.md

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> These are the knobs to control the steal_governor.
> 
> interval_ms:
> How often steal governor checks for steal time.
> (Default: 1000 i.e 1 second)
> This controls how fast steal governor driver reacts to changes to
> the contention of physical CPUs.
> Can be set between 100 to 100000. i.e. 100ms to 100seconds.
> 100ms is kept as minimum to ensure few meaningful steal values
> accumulate even with HZ=100.
> 
> low_threshold:
> lower threshold value in percentage * 100.
> (Default: 200, i.e 2% steal is considered as low threshold)
> This determines what values should be considered as nil/no steal values.
> [ ... ]
> 
> Documentation is available at: Documentation/driver-api/steal-governor.rst
> 
> Suggested-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!

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