Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:07:30 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory |
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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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