From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:42:55 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v2 Message-ID: <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> References: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , clameter@sgi.com, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com, Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be > the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled swapping > behavior of the KVM gphysical memory. I have a vaguely related question on KVM swapping. Do page accesses inside KVM guests get propagated to the host OS, so Linux can choose a reasonable page for eviction, or is the pageout of KVM guest pages essentially random? -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org