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Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:23:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: cputime takes cstate into consideration
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Raslan, KarimAllah wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 10:54 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > There were some ideas that Ankur (CC-ed) mentioned to me of using the perf
> > counters (in the host) to sample the guest and construct a better
> > accounting idea of what the guest does. That way the dashboard
> > from the host would not show 100% CPU utilization.
> 
> You can either use the UNHALTED cycles perf-counter or you can use MPERF/APERF 
> MSRs for that. (sorry I got distracted and forgot to send the patch)

Sure, but then you conflict with the other people who fight tooth and nail
over every single performance counter.

Thanks,

	tglx
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