On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, 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 hypervisor part for it. I am keeping it separate from > the headers 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 <[email protected]> > CC: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> > CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> > CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > CC: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> > CC: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> > CC: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
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