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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/3] docs: document virtio-balloon stats
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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>

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 06:26:05 +0000
Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com> wrote:

> >  2. wait for the (kernel-based) auto-ballooning feature, which is on the
> >     works
> 
> Do you have more information on that? Any links?

No, no links. What's being worked right now is a notification mechanism for
the kernel to inform user-space about memory pressure:

 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=135513372205134&w=2

Then we can add that to qemu for auto-inflate and change the virtio-balloon
driver to do auto-deflate.