Ingo, please, could you have a look to these patches ? The aim of these four patches is to introduce Virtual Machine time accounting.
[PATCH 1/4] as recent CPUs introduce a third running state, after "user" and "system", we need a new field, "guest", in cpustat to store the time used by the CPU to run virtual CPU. Modify /proc/stat to display this new field. [PATCH 2/4] like for cpustat, introduce the "gtime" (guest time of the task) and "cgtime" (guest time of the task children) fields for the tasks. Modify signal_struct and task_struct. Modify /proc/<pid>/stat to display these new fields. [PATCH 3/4] modify account_system_time() to add cputime to cpustat->guest if we are running a VCPU. We add this cputime to cpustat->user instead of cpustat->system because this part of KVM code is in fact user code although it is executed in the kernel. We duplicate VCPU time between guest and user to allow an unmodified "top(1)" to display correct value. A modified "top(1)" is able to display good cpu user time and cpu guest time by subtracting cpu guest time from cpu user time. Update "gtime" and "cgtime" in signal_struct and task_struct accordingly. [PATCH 4/4] Modify KVM to update guest time accounting. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------- "Software is hard" - Donald Knuth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/