Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:07:09AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: >> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> In other words, regardless of whether this particular pv_op lives or >>> dies, we're going to need to have to deal with stolen time properly. I >>> think this hook is reasonable and useful step towards doing that. >> Exactly. Normal interrupts we can handle. Having CPU completely >> disappear for unkown time periods we can't, and will need to. > > But that is just what a interrupt is.
Interrupts tend to be reasonably short though. Steal time can be several hypervisor/host time slices long. As an aside, normal interrupts *are* accounted for separately in /proc/stat, so why not steal time too? -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
