[virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2] content: document balloon memory statistics

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:50:52PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> Linux kernel provides some balloon memory statistics that were not
> included in the specs. Include them to avoid any ID clashes in the
> future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@redhat.com>

OK when you feel it's ready, pls open an issue in github,
don't forget to include link to list archives (this email).
Then send an email so I can start the voting.

> ---
>  content.tex | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index c7ef7fd..7e9e026 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -5028,6 +5028,8 @@ struct virtio_balloon_stat {
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT   3
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE  4
>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT   5
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL    6
> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES   7
>          le16 tag;
>          le64 val;
>  } __attribute__((packed));
> @@ -5109,6 +5111,13 @@ first buffer.
>  
>  \item[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT (5)] The total amount of memory available
>    (in bytes).
> +
> +\item[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_AVAIL (6)] An estimate of how much memory is available
> +  (in bytes) for starting new applications, without pushing the system to swap.
> +
> +\item[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_CACHES (7)] The amount of memory, in bytes, that can be
> +  quickly reclaimed without additional I/O. Typically these pages are used for
> +  caching files from disk.
>  \end{description}
>  
>  \section{SCSI Host Device}\label{sec:Device Types / SCSI Host Device}
> -- 
> 2.16.1

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