Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:53:32 +0200 | From | Laurent Vivier <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND][PATCH 1/4] Introduce a new field "guest" in cpustat |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > Laurent Vivier wrote: >> [PATCH 1/4] as recent CPUs introduce a third running state, after >> "user" and >> "system", we need a new field, "guest", in cpustat to store the time >> used by >> the CPU to run virtual CPU. Modify /proc/stat to display this new field. > > I think it would be good to always print out that number, even if > it is zero without the CONFIG option set. > > Changing the format of /proc/stat depending on config options is > probably worse than changing it when moving kernel versions. > > I guess reusing the "steal" field is not a good idea, since your > new "guest time" has different semantics than the steal time field. >
I agree with all.
Laurent -- ------------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net -------------- "Software is hard" - Donald Knuth
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