>> >For example, lets says you are running several guests, and would like >> to >> >start yet another one for a while - but have no free memory left. >> > >> >> We have another solution for it that will soon be pushed into the >> kernel: >> It is the balloon driver solution. >> Each guest runs a balloon driver, when the host needs to free up memory >> a daemon with certain policy asks some of the guests to inflate their >> balloon, >> KVM frees their ballooned pages and the host free memory increases. >> When the memory pressure relives, the balloons get deflate command. > >You probably want to have a look at arch/s390/mm/cmm.c which is >exactly doing what you want. Of course the message interface to the >hypervisor is different to what you want to do.
Gee, thanks, I wasn't aware of it. I wrote the Linux driver, not yet ready for mainline. This might change things and I'll might use/change the cmm. It will take a while because my queue is jammed with too much stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
