> -----Original Message----- > From: David Rientjes [mailto:rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 5:33 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Andrew Morton; Greg KH; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > mm@xxxxxxxxx; Hiroyuki Kamezawa; Michal Hocko; Johannes Weiner; Ying Han > Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > The Hyper-V host has a policy engine for managing available physical memory > across > > competing virtual machines. This policy decision is based on a number of > parameters > > including the memory pressure reported by the guest. Currently, the pressure > calculation is > > based on the memory commitment made by the guest. From what I can tell, > the ratio of > > currently allocated physical memory to the current memory commitment made > by the guest > > (vm_committed_as) is used as one of the parameters in making the memory > balancing decision on > > the host. This is what Windows guests report to the host. So, I need some > measure of memory > > commitments made by the Linux guest. This is the reason I want export > vm_committed_as. > > > > I don't think you should export the symbol itself to modules but rather a > helper function that returns s64 that just wraps > percpu_counter_read_positive() which your driver could use instead. > > (And why percpu_counter_read_positive() returns a signed type is a > mystery.) Yes, this makes sense. I just want to access (read) this metric. Andrew, if you are willing to take this patch, I could send one. Regards, K. Y _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
