86 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
86 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: viomb.4,v 1.2 2011/11/26 22:36:14 wiz Exp $
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.\" Copyright (C) 2011 Minoura Makoto.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd November 26, 2011
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.Dt VIOMB 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm viomb
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.Nd VirtIO memory ballooning driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?"
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.Cd "viomb* at virtio?"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Xr virtio 4
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defines an interface for efficient, standard, and extensible I/O between
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the hypervisor and the virtual machine.
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the virtio-compliant memory ballooning device.
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.Pp
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Memory ballooning works as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -enum -compact
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.It
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The host operator requests a guest to return some amount of memory to the host
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(via e.g. Qemu monitor balloon command).
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.It
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The hypervisor sends the request via VirtIO memory ballooning device.
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.It
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The guest
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.Nm
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driver requests allocation of that amount of physical memory from the
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.Nx
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memory management system.
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.It
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The
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.Nm
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device tells the hypervisor the guest physical memory address of the
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allocated memory via VirtIO memory ballooning device.
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.El
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.Pp
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The sysctl node
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.Li hw.viomb.npages
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shows the requested number of memory pages to return to the hypervisor, while
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.Li hw.viomb.actual
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shows the actual number of memory pages that are already returned to the hypervisor.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr virtio 4 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Pp
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.Rs
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.%A Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation
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.%T Virtio PCI Card Specification
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.%O http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
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.Re
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver appeared in
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.Nx 6.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The userland interface should be same as the Xen ballooning device.
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