> From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:k...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:03 AM > To: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; > o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com; a...@firstfloor.org; > a...@linux-foundation.org; linux...@kvack.org; > kamezawa.hiroy...@gmail.com; mho...@suse.cz; han...@cmpxchg.org; > ying...@google.com; > dan.magenhei...@oracle.com; konrad.w...@oracle.com > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory > > 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 <k...@microsoft.com>
The patch to the Xen selfballoon driver is unnecessary, but is one step in the direction of module support for this driver so I am fine whether the patch is included here or not. Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenhei...@oracle.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
