How to get a sense of VM pressure

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
I'm thinking about ways to improve the Xen balloon driver. This is the driver which allows the guest domain to expand or contract by either asking for more memory from the hypervisor, or giving unneeded memory back. From the kernel's perspective, it simply looks like a driver which allocates

Re: How to get a sense of VM pressure

2008-07-25 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 26 July 2008 03:55, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I'm thinking about ways to improve the Xen balloon driver. This is the driver which allows the guest domain to expand or contract by either asking for more memory from the hypervisor, or giving unneeded memory back. From the kernel's