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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Very nice! -- 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/
