From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization. Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:33:59 -0400 Message-ID: <49D38967.8020706@redhat.com> References: <20090327150905.819861420@de.ibm.com> <20090327151012.713478499@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090327151012.713478499@de.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > From: Martin Schwidefsky > From: Hubertus Franke > From: Himanshu Raj > > On of the challenges of the guest page hinting scheme is the cost for > the state transitions. If the cost gets too high the whole concept of > page state information is in question. Therefore it is important to > avoid the state transitions when possible. > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- 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