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authorAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>2010-01-26 14:17:35 -0600
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2010-01-26 17:08:03 -0600
commit625a5befc2e3200b396594f002218d235e375da5 (patch)
tree89b9362c879d319b5061424035e3dbead9555e70 /hw/pflash_cfi01.c
parent940cc30d0d456781adcc48bf9f8c5582026d7983 (diff)
virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver
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. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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