From: Michal Privoznik Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:46:18 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: Clarify free_page_reporting attribute X-Git-Tag: v6.9.0-rc1~151 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c5bb37f76bda324f177e802e13f0090837b6aca;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git docs: Clarify free_page_reporting attribute The 'reporting' suffix of the attribute makes it sound like we could be reporting something to user. While in fact, this is purely virtio membaloon <-> QEMU business. Clarify the docs to make it clear. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé --- diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index a18222662f..bfa80e4bc2 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -6759,7 +6759,9 @@ Example: manually added device with static PCI slot 2 requested The optional ``freePageReporting`` attribute allows to enable/disable ("on"/"off", respectively) the ability of the QEMU virtio memory balloon to return unused pages back to the hypervisor to be used by other guests or - processes. :since:`Since 6.9.0, QEMU and KVM only` + processes. Please note that despite its name it has no effect on free memory + as reported by ``virDomainMemoryStats()`` and/or ``virsh dommemstat``. + :since:`Since 6.9.0, QEMU and KVM only` ``period`` The optional ``period`` allows the QEMU virtio memory balloon driver to