[Lguest] Virtio Balloon Driver.

[Gaurav Kukreja]

Hi,

I and my team mate, Supriti, were working on a Virtio Balloon Driver as a
part of our project where we had implemented Dan Magenheimer's Transcendent
Memory on Lguest. The algorithm that we had used for deciding how much and
when to balloon was a very crude one. It barely took the Committed AS value
from /proc/meminfo. This would be deducted from the total memory of the
guest, and half of that would be considered as underutilized memory. This
underutilized memory would then be ballooned out.

This worked for the purpose of our demonstration of the project.

We are looking to submit the Virtio Balloon Driver, and the Balloon Device
but that is a long way for us, since we have been busy with other things,
and haven't been able to concentrate on our project for quite some time. I
would like to know, whether the Balloon Driver might get accepted in the
Linux Mainline. Also, how do we go about submitting the code?

We also hoping to be able to shape up the Transcendent Memory code, and
upload it soon.

Regards,

-- 
Gaurav Kukreja

+91 997 030 1257
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