Andi Kleen wrote:
> Do you also get a clock for stolen nanoseconds?
>
What you actually get is how many ns the CPU spent in each state.
Stolen is runnable+offline.
> No need for cycles, you could just subtract the stolen ns if you
> can get those.
It just seems like a simpler interface to just allow overriding
sched_clock, rather than exposing sched_clock's internals and fiddling
with those. There's really nothing in the existing sched_clock which
can be profitably reused in the Xen case. VMI can make use of the
cycles_2_ns conversion, which is why I made it available for its use.
To be specific, this is the whole Xen sched_clock function:
/* Xen sched_clock implementation. Returns the number of RUNNING ns */
unsigned long long xen_sched_clock(void)
{
struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
cycle_t now;
unsigned long long ret;
preempt_disable();
now = xen_clocksource_read();
get_runstate_snapshot(&state);
WARN_ON(state.state != RUNSTATE_running);
ret = state.time[RUNSTATE_running] + (now - state.state_entry_time);
preempt_enable();
return ret;
}
J
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