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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH v2 4/7] taskstats: Add per task steal time accounting
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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 18:03 +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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> Currently steal time is only accounted for the whole system. With this
> patch we add steal time to the per task CPU time accounting.
> The triplet "user time", "system time" and "steal time" represents
> all consumed CPU time on hypervisor based systems.

Does that really make sense? Its not like the hypervisor really knows
anything about tasks and won't steal from one? Its really a vcpu
feature.

What added benefit will all this extra accounting give?


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