Re: [RFC][Patch v9 2/6] KVM: Enables the kernel to isolate guest free pages

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 21:28:19 EST


On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:35:53PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> With us hinting currently on MAX_ORDER - 1 pages only that actually
> takes care of the risk of a merge really wiping out any data about
> what has been hinted on and what hasn't.

Oh nice. I had this feeling MAX_ORDER - 1 specifically will
turn out being a better choice than something related to THP.
Now there's an actual reason why this makes things easier!

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