Re: [RFC 00/10] KVM: Add TMEM host/guest support

Gleb Natapov
2012-06-12T11:59:02Z

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:46:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 10:56 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >
> > btw, so far we've been poking on half of the code here.
> >
> > What about frontswap over kvm-tmem? are there any specific tests you'd
> > like to see there?
>
> hmm. On one hand, no one swaps these days so there aren't any good
> benchmarks for it. On the other hand, with swapping, at least we're
> guaranteed the page will be read in the future (unlike cache, where it's
> quite possible it won't be). I don't know.
>
>
Swapped page can be discarded without reading too.

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