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| From: | Avi Kivity |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:00:02 +0200 |
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On 11/11/2009 03:26 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:12 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:This all suggests that we should only update the stats from the guest when something on the host actually asks for them by issuing the QEMU monitor command. We don't want any kind of continuous polling of stats at any frequency, if nothing is using these stats on the host.Agreed. The next version of the patch will remove the timer completely. We'll wake up in response to config change notifications only.
A vq with its own interrupt would be much nicer. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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