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Hi all, With the new vm-tools we are trying to get top like capabilities going correctly. Currently we have a program vm-list that has some of this capability but is dependent on the cpu time given by libxc calls (xc_get_dom_info & xc_domain_get_cpu_usage). These two functions give you how much time (in nanoseconds, why is this not documented) the domain has been actively used. Approaches:

I''m working on a new hypercall, do_confer, which allows the directed yielding of a vcpu to another vcpu. It is mainly used when a vcpu fails to acquire a spinlock, yielding to the lock holder instead of spinning. I ported the ppc64 spinlock implementation for the i386 linux portion. In implementing the hypercall, I''ve been trying to figure out how to get the scheduler