Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2018 18:03:52 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v25 2/2] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT |
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 05:43:22PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote: > 3) Hints means the pages are quite likely to be free pages (no guarantee). > If the pages given to host are going to be freed, then we really couldn't > call them hints, they are true free pages. Ballooning needs true free pages, > while live migration needs hints, would you agree with this?
It's an interesting point, I'm convinced by it.
-- MST
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