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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:07:30 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com> cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org, olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com, andi@...stfloor.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, kamezawa.hiroyuki@...il.com, mhocko@...e.cz, hannes@...xchg.org, yinghan@...gle.com, dan.magenheimer@...cle.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory 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@...rosoft.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> Very nice! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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