Kernel CPU Utilization

[Ozgur Karatas]

21.04.2017, 19:19, "Stephen Brennan" <stephen at brennan.io>:
> Hello all,

Hello,

> I was wondering if anyone had some information on how CPU time used by the
> kernel is accounted for, e.g. in top or htop. I would imagine that kernel code
> running in process code would be "billed" toward that process. What about kernel
> worker threads (for example, work_structs queued for later)?
>
> My overall goal is that I'm doing some large-scale network emulation, and I want
> to ensure that the kernel is not using too much CPU time, otherwise the CPU
> overhead may be messing with the results.

I written to the code for myself, you can use and develop this code (open source).

https://github.com/mueddib/cpustat

> Thanks,
> Stephen

Regards,

Ozgur