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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:07:30PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> 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>

I am bit late to this party - and back from vacation - so not sure if this
is merged in or not. Either way:

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> on the drivers/xen* side.


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