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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/8] qapi: Correct balloon documentation
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 21:53:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200913195348.1064154-3-philmd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200913195348.1064154-1-philmd@redhat.com>

The documentation incorrectly uses the "size of the balloon"
description when it should be "logical size of the VM". Fix it.

The relation between both values is:

  logical_vm_size = vm_ram_size - balloon_size

Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
---
 qapi/misc.json | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qapi/misc.json b/qapi/misc.json
index b21963a176d..a667fdf03e5 100644
--- a/qapi/misc.json
+++ b/qapi/misc.json
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@
 #
 # Information about the guest balloon device.
 #
-# @actual: the number of bytes the balloon currently contains
+# @actual: the logical size of the VM in bytes
+#          Formula used: logical_vm_size = vm_ram_size - balloon_size
 #
 # Since: 0.14.0
 #
@@ -228,7 +229,8 @@
 # Emitted when the guest changes the actual BALLOON level. This value is
 # equivalent to the @actual field return by the 'query-balloon' command
 #
-# @actual: actual level of the guest memory balloon in bytes
+# @actual: the logical size of the VM in bytes
+#          Formula used: logical_vm_size = vm_ram_size - balloon_size
 #
 # Note: this event is rate-limited.
 #
@@ -759,7 +761,10 @@
 #
 # Request the balloon driver to change its balloon size.
 #
-# @value: the target size of the balloon in bytes
+# @value: the target logical size of the VM in bytes
+#         We can deduce the size of the balloon using this formula:
+#            logical_vm_size = vm_ram_size - balloon_size
+#         From it we have: balloon_size = vm_ram_size - @value
 #
 # Returns: - Nothing on success
 #          - If the balloon driver is enabled but not functional because the KVM
@@ -777,6 +782,8 @@
 # -> { "execute": "balloon", "arguments": { "value": 536870912 } }
 # <- { "return": {} }
 #
+# With a 2.5GiB guest this command inflated the balloon to 3GiB.
+#
 ##
 { 'command': 'balloon', 'data': {'value': 'int'} }
 
-- 
2.26.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-13 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-13 19:53 [PATCH v5 0/8] user-mode: Prune build dependencies (part 2) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] qapi: Restrict LostTickPolicy enum to machine code Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-14  9:14   ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-14  9:37     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-15  6:27       ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-13 19:53 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] qapi: Restrict balloon-related commands " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-14  9:16   ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-14  9:42     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-14  9:48       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-14 11:21         ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-14 12:15           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-15  6:24             ` Markus Armbruster
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] qapi: Restrict query-vm-generation-id command " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] qapi: Restrict query-uuid " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] qapi: Restrict device memory commands " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] qapi: Extract ACPI commands to 'acpi.json' Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] qapi: Extract PCI commands to 'pci.json' Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-15  6:29 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] user-mode: Prune build dependencies (part 2) Markus Armbruster
2020-09-15  7:09   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-15  8:52 ` Markus Armbruster

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