[libvirt] RFC: APIs to manage KSM

[Eric Blake]

On 08/31/2012 07:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>>> some more generic name. eg
>>>
>>>   virNodeSetMemorySharingParameters
>>>
>>> likewise for all the enum/constant names.
>>
>> For that matter, why can't we reuse the existing
>> virDomainSetMemoryParameters() for the enum/constants?  That is, whether
>> or not to use ksm is a memory parameter.
> 
> Actually this is a host level action. There is a separate non-upstreamed
> patch which lets us control whether KSM is used per-guest, which is waiting
> for a fix to QEMU

Oh, I missed virNode vs. virDomain.  Still, consistent naming argues for
virNodeSetMemoryParameters (not MemorySharingParameters), so that we can
add future MemoryParameters unrelated to sharing.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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