From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6.
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:41:47 +1100
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On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:21:32 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> My question now is how to proceed with the code. I sure
> would love to see the code going upstream some day but that depends on
> the mm developers as the code adds complexity that needs to be supported.

Well, I want this feature, but I agree about complexity.

AFAICT, the trivial subset of this is the hinting of Unused pages.  It seems 
that would buy us something, and perhaps be a stepping stone to full page 
hinting?

Cheers,
Rusty.
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