From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Cc: "aliguori@us.ibm.com" <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
"agl@us.ibm.com" <agl@us.ibm.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/3] docs: document virtio-balloon stats
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:23:21 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121207102321.69bb96c7@doriath.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24E144B8C0207547AD09C467A8259F755785FF6D@lisa.maurer-it.com>
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 05:30:17 +0000
Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com> wrote:
> > +The memory statistics are:
> > +
> > + o stat-swap-in
> > + o stat-swap-out
> > + o stat-major-faults
> > + o stat-minor-faults
> > + o stat-free-memory
> > + o stat-total-memory
>
> I want to implement an automatic ballooning policy, so I need to
> know the amount of free RAM inside the guest.
>
> But it seem that the balloon driver reports free ram without accounting
> buffers and cache.
>
> Is it possible to extent those statistic to include buffer/cache values?
Yes, should be possible but the kernel virtio-balloon driver has to be
extended too (and I suspect this kind of change goes into the kernel first).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-04 15:04 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] re-enable balloon stats Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-04 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] virtio-balloon: drop old stats code Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-04 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/3] virtio-balloon: re-enable balloon stats Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-06 17:03 ` mdroth
2012-12-06 17:58 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-04 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/3] docs: document virtio-balloon stats Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-06 13:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-12-06 15:31 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-06 16:59 ` mdroth
2012-12-07 5:30 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-12-07 12:23 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2012-12-07 15:01 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-12-07 18:54 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-08 6:26 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-12-10 11:19 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-10 12:06 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-12-10 7:52 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
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