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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] cpu steal time accounting


  • To: "Rik van Riel" <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Diwaker Gupta" <diwaker.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:24:13 -0800
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> Basically steal time is the amount of time when:
> 1) we had a runnable task, but
> 2) it was not running, because our vcpu was scheduled
>    away by the hypervisor

Just FYI: XenMon provides a similar metric which we call Waiting Time
-- the time a domain was runnable but not running. Of course, yours is
a different use case, since you want to query the stolen time from
within the guest.

Diwaker
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