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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:00:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFAD172.4090003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257945984.2876.1.camel@aglitke>

On 11/11/2009 03:26 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:12 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>    
>> This all suggests that we should only update the stats from the guest
>> when something on the host actually asks for them by issuing the QEMU
>> monitor command. We don't want any kind of continuous polling of stats
>> at any frequency, if nothing is using these stats on the host.
>>      
> Agreed.  The next version of the patch will remove the timer completely.
> We'll wake up in response to config change notifications only.
>    

A vq with its own interrupt would be much nicer.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-09 16:07 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio: Report new guest memory statistics pertinent to memory ballooning (V2) Adam Litke
2009-11-09 16:32 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver Adam Litke
2009-11-10  2:42   ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-11-10 14:36     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-10 14:43       ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-10 14:58         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11  9:24           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-11 10:12             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-11 13:26               ` Adam Litke
2009-11-11 15:00                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-11-10 23:59       ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-10 21:52     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11  0:02       ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-11  0:07         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11  2:43           ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-11 15:08             ` Adam Litke
2009-11-12  2:29               ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-09 19:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio: Report new guest memory statistics pertinent to memory ballooning (V2) Jamie Lokier
2009-11-09 19:16   ` Adam Litke
2009-11-09 21:15   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-10 13:23     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-09 19:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-09 19:23   ` Adam Litke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-05 22:50 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio: Report new guest memory statistics pertinent to memory ballooning Adam Litke
2009-11-05 23:02 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver Adam Litke
2009-11-05 23:39   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori

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