[Libvir] Question on acquiring cpuTime in struct _virDomainInfo

Jan Michael jan.michael at cern.ch
Thu May 10 15:41:33 UTC 2007


Hi everyone,

using libvirt I'm trying to calculate cpu utilization of a node in  
percent. But sometimes values beyond 100.0% are being calculated.  
This is because a domain spend more time on a cpu than time is  
elapsed in the meantime.

A short explanation of the way how cpu utilization is computed in my  
case:

	1. - open two connections with
		conn_cur/conn_old = virConnectOpenReadOnly(NULL);
	2. - get current time
		gettimeofday(&time_old, NULL);
	   - get domain by id with
		dom_old = virDomainLookupByID(conn_old, id)
	   - get domain information
		virDomainGetInfo(dom_old, &info_old);
	3. - sleep a second
	
	4. - doing same stuff like in 2. but with _cur

	5. - compute cpu utilization by dividing used cputime by elapsed time
		and multiply with 100

Am I right if I suppose that cpuTime for _virDomainInfo structure  
will be directly acquired from the hypervisor in virDomainGetInfo 
(dom_old, &info_old) or is it already present with getting the domain  
itself? Is there any better solution of doing this, which is more  
precise?

And another general question:
The monitoring utility of xen, called xentop, provides also  
statistics about networking and vbds. Are there any plans to provide  
this values by libvirt in the future?

Cheers,

	Jan




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