> From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:03 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
