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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFD] virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:39:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B460E55.9090800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262881658.2767.12.camel@aglitke>

On 01/07/2010 06:27 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
>
>> I think 'info-balloon' should be synchronous and without side-effects.
>> ie return the current stats that QEMU has. We could then add a separate
>> 'refresh-balloon' command + async event notification when that completes.
>> The tool that is requiring the stats could thus refresh as often as it
>> likes.
>>      
> This would work well for the QMP case, but what about for a traditional
> monitor?  We could include a sequence number or timestamp in the memory
> stats results so the user could tell that they were updated.  This
> doesn't seem very user friendly though

A user would have an easier time logging into the guest and using its 
native tools.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 17:08 [Qemu-devel] [RFD] virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver Adam Litke
2010-01-07 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-01-07 15:18   ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-07 15:22     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-07 15:39       ` Adam Litke
2010-01-08  1:33       ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-07 15:49   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-01-07 16:27     ` Adam Litke
2010-01-07 16:39       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-07 16:56         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-07 17:58           ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-07 18:30             ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-08 16:31               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-08 16:51                 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-08 17:01               ` Adam Litke
2010-01-08 17:25                 ` Luiz Capitulino

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