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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 1/5] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
    On 08/23/2012 07:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

    > --->
    >
    > virtio-balloon: replace page->lru list with page->private.
    >
    > The point is to free up page->lru for use by compaction.
    > Warning: completely untested, will provide tested version
    > if we agree on this direction.

    A singly linked list is not going to work for page migration,
    which needs to get pages that might be in the middle of the
    balloon list.

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