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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Satoshi Uchida <s-uchida@ap.jp.nec.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sysfs Interface for balloon driver
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:40:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4511D15F.90904@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AAA99889D105740BE010EB6D5A5A3B202A2AC@paddington.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Ian Pratt wrote:
>> Personally, I think the ballooning information ought to be exposed as
>>     
> a
>   
>> module parameter and appear in the sysfs module path.  I've always
>> thought /sys/hypervisor ought to expose information from the
>>     
> hypervisor.
>
> I don't think the memory target stuff is a driver. 'balloon' should not
> appear in the name anyhow -- this stuff is getting ever more closely
> integrated with Linux's core memory management anyhow, it's definitely
> not a driver.
>
> I sort of slightly buy Anthony's argument that /sys/hypervisor should
> just expose information about the hypervisor.
>
> /sys/devices/system/memory/{target,current,max,..} ?
>   

Works for me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian
>
>
>
>   

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-20 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-20  0:26 [PATCH] Sysfs Interface for balloon driver Satoshi Uchida
2006-09-20  1:12 ` John Levon
2006-09-20  3:00   ` Satoshi Uchida
2006-09-20 15:20     ` John Levon
2006-09-20 18:26       ` Anthony Liguori
2006-09-20 23:23         ` Ian Pratt
2006-09-20 23:29           ` John Levon
2006-09-20 23:40           ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-22  2:15 Satoshi Uchida

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