Rusty Russell wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:06 am Adam Litke wrote:
A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio
balloon driver and communicate them to the host via the device config space.
There are two issues I see with this. First, there's an atomicity problem
since you can't tell when the stats are consistent. Second, polling is
ugly.
A stats vq might solve this more cleanly?
This turns out to not work so nicely. You really need bidirectional
communication. You need to request that stats be collected and then you
need to tell the hypervisor about the stats that were collected. You
don't need any real correlation between requests and stat reports either.
This really models how target/actual work and I think it suggests that
we want to reuse that mechanism for the stats too.
Rusty.
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Regards,
Anthony Liguori
