1. 24 Feb, 2010 2 commits
    • Adam Litke's avatar
      virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4) · 9564e138
      Adam Litke authored
      Changes since V3:
       - Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host
       - Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes
       - Minor coding style updates
      
      Changes since V2:
       - Increase stat field size to 64 bits
       - Report all sizes in kb (not pages)
       - Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion
      
      Changes since V1:
       - Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space
      
      When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for
      guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information
      that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests.  The current method
      employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a
      host daemon at a specified time interval.  The host daemon aggregates this
      information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of
      host memory pressure.  This approach is effective but overly complex since a
      daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with
      the host.  A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio
      balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor.
      
      This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and
      reporting to the virtio balloon driver.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
      Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)
      9564e138
    • Jamie Lokier's avatar
      Add __devexit_p around reference to virtio_pci_remove · 1f08b833
      Jamie Lokier authored
      This is needed to compile with CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y,
      because virtio_pci_remove is marked __devexit.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      1f08b833
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