Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754670Ab1GACvJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:51:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24878 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753687Ab1GACvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0D3612.6040701@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:50:58 -0300 From: Glauber Costa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Avi Kivity , Anthony Liguori , Eric B Munson Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting References: <1309361388-30163-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1309361388-30163-8-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1309470871.12449.608.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1309470871.12449.608.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 23 On 06/30/2011 06:54 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:29 -0400, Glauber Costa wrote: >> This patch accounts steal time time in kernel/sched. >> I kept it from last proposal, because I still see advantages >> in it: Doing it here will give us easier access from scheduler >> variables such as the cpu rq. The next patch shows an example of >> usage for it. >> >> Since functions like account_idle_time() can be called from >> multiple places, not only account_process_tick(), steal time >> grabbing is repeated in each account function separatedely. >> > > That changelog is so going to frustrate someone trying to re-create your > thinking in a year's time. They really don't care about the last > proposals and the next patch. You're right. I'll review all changelogs and rewrite them as needed. -- 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/