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authorRyota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>2009-10-23 18:20:10 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-25 17:31:30 +0100
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sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accounting
CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time without concern for the nice value of its counterpart process although the guest is scheduled under the nice value. This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process. And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice' to 'user'. The original discussions can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
- irq: servicing interrupts
- softirq: servicing softirqs
- steal: involuntary wait
-- guest: running a guest
+- guest: running a normal guest
+- guest_nice: running a niced guest
The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all