Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755722Ab2K0VNW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:13:22 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:21144 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753857Ab2K0VNV (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:13:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:12:06 -0500 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: David Rientjes Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, andi@firstfloor.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, yinghan@google.com, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Export a function to get vm committed memory Message-ID: <20121127211206.GA10391@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1352818957-9229-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 24 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:07:30PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > 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 > > Acked-by: David Rientjes I am bit late to this party - and back from vacation - so not sure if this is merged in or not. Either way: Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk on the drivers/xen* side. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/