On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:35:50AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:44 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; > > o...@aepfle.de; > > a...@canonical.com; a...@linux-foundation.org; a...@firstfloor.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as > > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 04:59:45PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > The policy engine on the host expects the guest to report the > > > committed_as. Since this variable is not exported, > > > export this symbol. > > > > Why are these symbols not needed by either Xen or KVM or vmware, which > > I think all support the same thing, right? > > The basic balloon driver does not need this symbol since the basic balloon > driver > is not automatically driven by the host. On the Windows host we have a policy > engine that > drives the balloon driver based on both guest level memory pressure that the > guest > reports as well as other system level metrics the host maintains. We need > this symbol to > drive the policy engine on the host.
Ok, but you're going to have to get the -mm developers to agree that this is ok before I can accept it. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
