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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:45:38 -0500
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On 12/27/2009 11:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/27/2009 06:32 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> Probably a regression in Linux swapping. Rik, Hugh, are you aware of
>>> any? Hugh posted something but it appears to be performance related, not
>>> causing early swap.
>>
>> Yes, it is a smal bug in the VM.
>>
>> A fix has been committed to 2.6.33 already.
>
> Is this b39415b273?

Indeed it is.

> If so, it doesn't copy stable@kernel.org. Is it queued for -stable?

I do not believe that it is queued for -stable.

Do performance fixes fit with -stable policy?

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