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SubjectRe: [RESEND][PATCH 0/4] Virtual Machine Time Accounting

* Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> wrote:

> Ingo, please, could you have a look to these patches ?
>
> The aim of these four patches is to introduce Virtual Machine time
> accounting.
>
> [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.

the concept certainly looks sane to me.

The heavy-handed use of #ifdefs uglifies the code to a large degree, but
this is not a fundamental problem: since basically all distros have KVM
enabled (and lguest benefits from this too), could you just make all
this new code unconditional?

Ingo
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