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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Spelic wrote:
> breaking it up in smaller subsegments would probably have been wiser,  

The plan was always for more frequent checkpoints, but it involves more
complicated code and there's simply been no need to do this: given how rarely
pvmove is used, the current approach seems to be good enough and nobody's
written the extra code yet.

Alasdair