On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:11:28 +0000 KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:a...@linux-foundation.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:48 PM > > To: Greg KH > > Cc: KY Srinivasan; o...@aepfle.de; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > > a...@firstfloor.org; a...@canonical.com; de...@linuxdriverproject.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as > > > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:35:39 -0700 > > Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:35:50AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > > > > > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:44 PM > > > > > To: KY Srinivasan > > > > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; > > o...@aepfle.de; > > > > > a...@canonical.com; a...@linux-foundation.org; a...@firstfloor.org > > > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 04:59:45PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > > The policy engine on the host expects the guest to report the > > > > > > committed_as. Since this variable is not exported, > > > > > > export this symbol. > > > > > > > > > > Why are these symbols not needed by either Xen or KVM or vmware, which > > > > > I think all support the same thing, right? > > > > > > > > The basic balloon driver does not need this symbol since the basic > > > > balloon > > driver > > > > is not automatically driven by the host. On the Windows host we have a > > > > policy > > engine that > > > > drives the balloon driver based on both guest level memory pressure > > > > that the > > guest > > > > reports as well as other system level metrics the host maintains. We > > > > need this > > symbol to > > > > drive the policy engine on the host. > > > > > > Ok, but you're going to have to get the -mm developers to agree that > > > this is ok before I can accept it. > > > > Well I guess it won't kill us. > > > Thanks. > The other part of my email seems to have vanished. Which makes me sad, because I was rather interested in the answer. -- 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/
