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steal-time
- Feb 17, 2026 Steal Time and vCPU Skew: What Happens When a Guest Gets Fewer Cores Than It Asked For Why a guest cannot see its own descheduling, how paravirtualized steal accounting reports it, and why lock holders that lose the CPU cost far more than the time they lost. virtualization
- Apr 10, 2025 Steal Time and the Mechanics of CPU Oversubscription How a hypervisor shares physical cores among more vCPUs than it has, how the guest learns it was descheduled, and what the accounting can and cannot reveal. cloud infrastructure