Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] virtio-balloon: extend stats with memory composition and pressure data

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Tue Jun 16 2026 - 10:23:40 EST


On 6/16/26 15:49, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 02:30:34PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>>
>> Nothing too crazy here, however, the question is which of these values we
>> actually want to guarantee that we will provide them with unchanged semantics in
>> the future ... I guess anything we already expose to user space is alright
>> (because it effectively already must remain mostly unchanged I assume).
>>
>
> I suppose a risk of them going away entirely? I suppose that's
> fixable but unlikely.

Yeah, the first bunch is all exported through /proc/vmstat AFAIKS.

The other through /proc/pressure/

So I assume this is just fine.

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Cheers,

David