On 11/30/2009 06:14 PM, Adam Litke wrote: > Changes since V3: > - Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host > - Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes > - Minor coding style updates > > Changes since V2: > - Increase stat field size to 64 bits > - Report all sizes in kb (not pages) > - Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion > > Changes since V1: > - Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space > > When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for > guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information > that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current method > employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a > host daemon at a specified time interval. The host daemon aggregates this > information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of > host memory pressure. This approach is effective but overly complex since a > daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with > the host. A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio > balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor. > > This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and > reporting to the virtio balloon driver. > > What about a spec update? Did that happen and I just missed it? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
