xemu/hw/virtio-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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/*
* Virtio Support
*
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2007-2008
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
* the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
*
*/
#ifndef _QEMU_VIRTIO_BALLOON_H
#define _QEMU_VIRTIO_BALLOON_H
#include "virtio.h"
#include "pci.h"
/* from Linux's linux/virtio_balloon.h */
/* The ID for virtio_balloon */
#define VIRTIO_ID_BALLOON 5
/* The feature bitmap for virtio balloon */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST 0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ 1 /* Memory stats virtqueue */
/* Size of a PFN in the balloon interface. */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT 12
struct virtio_balloon_config
{
/* Number of pages host wants Guest to give up. */
uint32_t num_pages;
/* Number of pages we've actually got in balloon. */
uint32_t actual;
};
/* Memory Statistics */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN 0 /* Amount of memory swapped in */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT 1 /* Amount of memory swapped out */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT 2 /* Number of major faults */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT 3 /* Number of minor faults */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE 4 /* Total amount of free memory */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT 5 /* Total amount of memory */
#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR 6
typedef struct VirtIOBalloonStat {
uint16_t tag;
uint64_t val;
} __attribute__((packed)) VirtIOBalloonStat;
#endif