[PATCH v2 3/6] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Fri Jan 28 2011 - 14:53:54 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d747f94..77e9297 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ long io_schedule_timeout(long timeout);
extern void cpu_init (void);
extern void trap_init(void);
extern void update_process_times(int user);
+extern u64 (*hypervisor_steal_time)(void);
extern void scheduler_tick(void);

extern void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p);
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index ea3e5ef..7765e9d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3508,6 +3508,39 @@ unsigned long long thread_group_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
return ns;
}

+u64 (*hypervisor_steal_time)(void) = NULL;
+
+/*
+ * We have to at flush steal time information every time something else
+ * is accounted. Since the accounting functions are all visible to the rest
+ * of the kernel, it gets tricky to do them in one place. This helper function
+ * helps us.
+ *
+ * When the system is idle, the concept of steal time does not apply. We just
+ * tell the underlying hypervisor that we grabbed the data, but skip steal time
+ * accounting
+ */
+static int touch_steal_time(int is_idle)
+{
+ u64 steal, st;
+
+ if (!hypervisor_steal_time)
+ return 0;
+
+ steal = hypervisor_steal_time();
+
+ st = usecs_to_cputime(steal / 1000);
+
+ if (is_idle)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (st) {
+ account_steal_time(st);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Account user cpu time to a process.
* @p: the process that the cpu time gets accounted to
@@ -3520,6 +3553,9 @@ void account_user_time(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t cputime,
struct cpu_usage_stat *cpustat = &kstat_this_cpu.cpustat;
cputime64_t tmp;

+ if (touch_steal_time(0))
+ return;
+
/* Add user time to process. */
p->utime = cputime_add(p->utime, cputime);
p->utimescaled = cputime_add(p->utimescaled, cputime_scaled);
@@ -3580,6 +3616,9 @@ void account_system_time(struct task_struct *p, int hardirq_offset,
struct cpu_usage_stat *cpustat = &kstat_this_cpu.cpustat;
cputime64_t tmp;

+ if (touch_steal_time(0))
+ return;
+
if ((p->flags & PF_VCPU) && (irq_count() - hardirq_offset == 0)) {
account_guest_time(p, cputime, cputime_scaled);
return;
@@ -3627,6 +3666,8 @@ void account_idle_time(cputime_t cputime)
cputime64_t cputime64 = cputime_to_cputime64(cputime);
struct rq *rq = this_rq();

+ touch_steal_time(1);
+
if (atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait) > 0)
cpustat->iowait = cputime64_add(cpustat->iowait, cputime64);
else
--
1.7.2.3

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