Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751806AbXBFMqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:46:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751795AbXBFMqE (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:46:04 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49514 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751879AbXBFMqD (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:46:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] VMI / Paravirt bugfixes for 2.6.21 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andi Kleen Cc: Rusty Russell , Zachary Amsden , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright In-Reply-To: <20070206122514.GA47229@muc.de> References: <200702060352.l163q87K000713@zach-dev.vmware.com> <1170736029.29293.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45C809F9.2090905@vmware.com> <1170738676.29293.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1170752856.7324.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070206122514.GA47229@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:45:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1170765952.7324.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 24 On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:25 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > hmm stolen time could even be useful without virtualization; to a large > > degree, if cpufreq reduces the speed of your cpu you have "stolen > > cycles" that way... I wonder if this concept can be used for that as > > well... > > I don't see the point, frankly. I mean for showing the sysadmin that his system has spare capacity left. right now top shows 50% in use (at say 600Mhz) while the 2.8Ghz processor obviously isn't even nearly half loaded. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/