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Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:19:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Markus Armbruster To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [PULL 02/29] qapi: Correct balloon documentation Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:18:59 +0200 Message-Id: <20200929201926.2155622-3-armbru@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20200929201926.2155622-1-armbru@redhat.com> References: <20200929201926.2155622-1-armbru@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=armbru@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=216.205.24.124; envelope-from=armbru@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/29 02:22:44 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.687, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Paolo Bonzini , =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , David Hildenbrand Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 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 Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Message-Id: <20200913195348.1064154-3-philmd@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster --- qapi/misc.json | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/qapi/misc.json b/qapi/misc.json index b21963a176..a667fdf03e 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