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