[Bug 982239] New: More detailed statistics from the balloon
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239
Bug ID: 982239
Summary: More detailed statistics from the balloon
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 13.1
Version: Final
Hardware: Other
OS: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Kernel
Assignee: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter: ann.melekhova@gmail.com
QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de
Found By: ---
Blocker: ---
There is QEMU/KVM and a Linux OS running inside the guest.
Inside the Linux guest a balloon consumes memory in accordance with
commands performed on the host side in QEMU and reports some statistics through
memstat structure.
For the Linux guest reported “free” value doesn’t describe the guest memory
pressure at all.
The provided patch set in Linux kernel extends the stat with available field.
The problem is addressed in mainstream Linux with the following patchset:
commit
5057dcd0f1aaad57e07e728ba20a99e205c6b9de
Author: Igor Redko
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239#c1
Takashi Iwai
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239#c2
Anna Melekhova
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982239#c3
Takashi Iwai
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