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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:55:33 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Let's just call out the possible (probable?) need for new ABI here.
> Maybe it will cue folks who care to speak up.

Err, why would you teach the user to go poke at some arbitrary sysfs
nodes when the accepting code can simply issue a printk from time to
time

  "Guest unnaccepted memory progress: XX%. This slows down operations at the moment."

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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