KVM: Steal time implementation

To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest
information about how much time was spent running other processes
outside the VM, while the vcpu had meaningful work to do - halt
time does not count.

This information is acquired through the run_delay field of
delayacct/schedstats infrastructure, that counts time spent in a
runqueue but not running.

Steal time is a per-cpu information, so the traditional MSR-based
infrastructure is used. A new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, holds the
memory area address containing information about steal time

This patch contains the hypervisor part of the steal time infrasructure,
and can be backported independently of the guest portion.

[avi, yongjie: export delayacct_on, to avoid build failures in some configs]

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongjie Ren <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Glauber Costa
2011-07-11 15:28:14 -04:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 9ddabbe72e
commit c9aaa8957f
6 changed files with 89 additions and 2 deletions

View File

@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
#define KVM_REQ_DEACTIVATE_FPU 10
#define KVM_REQ_EVENT 11
#define KVM_REQ_APF_HALT 12
#define KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE 13
#define KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID 0