Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6.

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed Mar 12 2008 - 18:42:43 EST


On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:21:32 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> My question now is how to proceed with the code. I sure
> would love to see the code going upstream some day but that depends on
> the mm developers as the code adds complexity that needs to be supported.

Well, I want this feature, but I agree about complexity.

AFAICT, the trivial subset of this is the hinting of Unused pages. It seems
that would buy us something, and perhaps be a stepping stone to full page
hinting?

Cheers,
Rusty.
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