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Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:01:26 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: cputime takes cstate into consideration
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 07:27:35PM +0000, Raslan, KarimAllah wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 21:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:55:36PM +0000, Raslan, KarimAllah wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > If the host is completely in no_full_hz mode and the pCPU is dedicated to a?
> > > single vCPU/task (and the guest is 100% CPU bound and never exits), you would?
> > > still be ticking in the host once every second for housekeeping, right? Would?
> > > not updating the mwait-time once a second be enough here?
> > 
> > People are trying very hard to get rid of that remnant tick. Lets not
> > add dependencies to it.
> > 
> > IMO this is a really stupid issue, 100% time is correct if the guest
> > does idle in pinned vcpu mode.
> 
> One use case for proper accounting (obviously for a slightly relaxed definition?
> or *proper*) is *external* monitoring of CPU utilization for scaling group
> (i.e. more VMs will be launched when you reach a certain CPU utilization).
> These external monitoring tools needs to account CPU utilization properly.

That's utter nonsense; what's the point of exposing mwait to guests if
you're not doing vcpu pinning. For overloaded guests mwait makes no
sense what so ever.