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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] kvm: Add host side support for free memory hints
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:41:19 -0800
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On 2/9/19 4:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> So the policy should not leak into host/guest interface.
> Instead it is better to just keep the pages pinned and
> ignore the hint for now.

It does seems a bit silly to have guests forever hinting about freed
memory when the host never has a hope of doing anything about it.

Is that part fixable?