On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > It will be useful to be able to access global memory commitment from device > drivers. On the Hyper-V platform, the host has a policy engine to balance > the available physical memory amongst all competing virtual machines > hosted on a given node. This policy engine is driven by a number of metrics > including the memory commitment reported by the guests. The balloon driver > for Linux on Hyper-V will use this function to retrieve guest memory commitment. > This function is also used in Xen self ballooning code. > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Very nice! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>