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From: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kernel@openvz.org, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Enable balloon drivers to report inflated memory
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:14:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9653d74f-ffff-6a25-8c99-5565bcab4d5c@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EFFFB23-9F73-4F07-B6FF-3BD05976D427@linux.dev>

Hello,

On 10.08.22 6:05, Muchun Song wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 9, 2022, at 17:49, Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Display reported in /proc/meminfo as:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this is a right place (meminfo) to put this statistic in since
> it is the accounting from a specific driver. IIUC, this driver is only installed
> in a VM, then this accounting will always be zero if this driver is not installed.
> Is this possible to put it in a driver-specific sysfs file (maybe it is better)?
> Just some thoughts from me.

Yes, it is only used if run under hypervisor but it is under a config 
option for that reason.

There are several balloon drivers that will use it, not only one driver 
- virtio, VMWare, HyperV, XEN and possibly others. I made one as an 
example. Initially i worked on a patches for debugfs but discussion lead 
to put it into a centralized place.

-- 
Regards,
Alexander Atanasov



      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-10  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7bfac48d-2e50-641b-6523-662ea4df0240@virtuozzo.com>
2022-08-09  9:49 ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-08-09 10:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-10  5:54     ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-08-10  6:05       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-10  7:50         ` Alexander Atanasov
2022-08-10  9:16           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-10  3:05   ` Muchun Song
2022-08-10  5:14     ` Alexander Atanasov [this message]

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