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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] KVM: Add TMEM host/guest support
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:58:57 +0300
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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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