Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support

[Alexey Makhalov]

Hi Borislav,

I didn't receive any response first time. I'm not on the list.
Thanks for reporting i386 issue. I'll address it in v2.

Regards,
--Alexey

ïOn 3/20/20, 1:59 PM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:34:38PM +0000, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
    > Hello,
    > 
    > This patchset introduces steal time accounting support for
    > the VMware guest. The idea and implementation of guest
    > steal time support is similar to KVM ones and it is based
    > on steal clock. The steal clock is a per CPU structure in
    > a shared memory between hypervisor and guest, initialized
    > by each CPU through hypercall. Steal clock is got updated
    > by the hypervisor and read by the guest. 
    
    ...
    
    >  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   2 +-
    >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c                    | 227 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
    >  2 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
    
    Did you not see my reply to you the last time?
    
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