Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v2

Rik van Riel
2008-01-16T17:42:55Z

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be
> the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled swapping
> behavior of the KVM gphysical memory.

I have a vaguely related question on KVM swapping.

Do page accesses inside KVM guests get propagated to the host
OS, so Linux can choose a reasonable page for eviction, or is
the pageout of KVM guest pages essentially random?

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