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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory
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@microsoft.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Very nice!


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