[PATCH 3/3] docs: Clarify free_page_reporting attribute

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 15:29:34 UTC 2020


The 'reporting' suffix of the attribute makes it sound like we
could be reporting something to user. While in fact, this is
purely virtio membaloon <-> QEMU business. Clarify the docs to
make it clear.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 docs/formatdomain.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 5ec765ad3d..7abcb9d773 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -6759,7 +6759,9 @@ Example: manually added device with static PCI slot 2 requested
    The optional ``free_page_reporting`` attribute allows to enable/disable
    ("on"/"off", respectively) the ability of the QEMU virtio memory balloon to
    return unused pages back to the hypervisor to be used by other guests or
-   processes. :since:`Since 6.9.0, QEMU and KVM only`
+   processes. Please note that despite its name it has no effect on free memory
+   as reported by ``virDomainMemoryStats()`` and/or ``virsh dommemstat``.
+   :since:`Since 6.9.0, QEMU and KVM only`
 
 ``period``
    The optional ``period`` allows the QEMU virtio memory balloon driver to
-- 
2.26.2




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