Re: [PATCH] Fix Linux PMDA CPU time metrics

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:25 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> Nathan Scott (on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:32:19 +1100) wrote:
> >Finally, theres a new CPU time being accounted in recent 2.6 kernels
> >("steal") - I've not updated the agent to export that as yet (it is
> >always zero on my boxen).
> 
> The steal time is set in account_steal_time() which is only called from
> ppc and s390 systems.  IOW, from those architectures that have built in
> hypervisors.  I would expect the steal time to start being set under
> Xen and similar hypervisors, so it should be added to PCP.

Ah, I see - thanks Keith.  I'll cook up a patch when I get a chance.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan