On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:05:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 06/25/2012 11:55 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > >Allow to enable/disable memory merging during run-time. > > > >This is implemented by extending the qemu_set_mem_merge() function. > > > >To test on HMP: > > > > (qemu) set_memory_merge on > > (qemu) set_memory_merge off > > > >Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino<lcapitul...@redhat.com> > > Is there a requirement to tweak KSM dynamically on a per-VM basis or > was this just a nice to have? > > I can certainly understand wanting to run your VMs without KSM but > not wanting to have to muck with global configuration values. > > I would suspect that people would either overcommit or not > overcommit as a global decision. Once you overcommit even one > machine, you potentially put your whole system in danger of swap.
I tend to agree, this monitor commands feels like a feature without a clear usecase. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
