[libvirt] [RFC] Memory controller exploitation in libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:17:44PM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:02:49 +0200, Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Yes the ESX driver allows to control ballooning through
> > virDomainSetMemory and virDomainSetMaxMemory.
> > 
> > ESX itself also allows to set what's called memoryMinGaurantee in the
> > thread, but this is not exposed in libvirt.
> LXC driver is using virDomainSetMemory to set the memory hard limit while
> QEmu/ESX use them to change the ballooning. And as you said, ESX does support
> memoryMinGaurantee, we can get this exported in libvirt using this new API.
> 
> Here I am trying to group all the memory related parameters into one single
> public API as we have in virDomainSetSchedulerParameters. Currently, the names
> are not conveying what they modify in the below layer and are confusing.

For historical design record, I think it would be good to write a short
description of what memory tunables are available for each hypervisor,
covering VMWare, OpenVZ, Xen, KVM and LXC (the latter both cgroups based).
I do recall that OpenVZ  in particular had a huge number of memory
tunables.

Daniel
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