From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6. Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:41:47 +1100 References: <20080312132132.520833247@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080312132132.520833247@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803130941.48480.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Archive: List-Post: To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, hugh@veritas.com List-ID: 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.