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sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting

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CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time
without concern for the nice value of its counterpart
process although the guest is scheduled under the nice
value.

This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of
a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process.

And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The
value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice'
to 'user'.

The original discussions can be found here:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html
  http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html

Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ryota Ozaki
2009-10-24 01:20:10 +09:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 0b9e31e926
commit ce0e7b28fb
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@@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
- guest: running a guest
- guest: running a normal guest
- guest_nice: running a niced guest
The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all