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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Analysis of using balloon page compaction in Xen
	balloon driver
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:07:01 +0100
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On 17/10/14 09:20, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> I think it is important to realise that this is an independently useful
> change which is also a prerequisite for some interesting future work. I
> think blocking this work now pending the completion of that future
> interesting work is unreasonable.

I don't think requiring some initial design work for the complete
solution (including the hypervisor side compaction) is unreasonable.

This should even be straightforward given the prototyping that Dario has
already done.

David