qemu-e2k/balloon.h
Adam Litke 625a5befc2 virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver
When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for
guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information
that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests.  The current method
employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a
host daemon at a specified time interval.  The host daemon aggregates this
information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of
host memory pressure.  This approach is effective but overly complex since a
daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with
the host.  A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio
balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-26 17:08:03 -06:00

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/*
* Balloon
*
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2008
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
* the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
*
*/
#ifndef _QEMU_BALLOON_H
#define _QEMU_BALLOON_H
#include "cpu-defs.h"
typedef void (QEMUBalloonEvent)(void *opaque, ram_addr_t target,
MonitorCompletion cb, void *cb_data);
void qemu_add_balloon_handler(QEMUBalloonEvent *func, void *opaque);
int qemu_balloon(ram_addr_t target, MonitorCompletion cb, void *opaque);
int qemu_balloon_status(MonitorCompletion cb, void *opaque);
#endif