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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:55:50PM +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:39:35 +0300
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > How about your own idea?
> > >
> > 
> > Looks pretty good, if I do say so myself.  I'll take a shot at
> > implementing it.
> 
> 
> Looking forward to it!
> After your work, 8192 in my patch may better be lowered a bit.

Why not simply use spin_is_contented again? Are you afraid of
GET_DIRTY_LOG starved by pagefaults?