Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6. | From | Martin Schwidefsky <> | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:47:07 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:41 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > 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?
I've been there but the unused page thing is so small that it doesn't make sense to separate it from the patches. If I don't see any progress then I will come up with a patch that adds the Unused state transitions to the arch files of s390.
-- blue skies, Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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