On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:53:25AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > I'm not worried about transition cost (that's for whoever makes the > transition to pay) but about how the APIs would translate to the new > way of doing things. > > For example, it might be done using mmu notifiers. We might use the > existing madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) as the entry point (though I don't > know how we would indicate deflation). I guess we could extend mmu notifiers to notify on any PTE transition, but that seems like a lot of VM complexity for a little gain, given the simple KVM-internal alternatives. Cheers, Muli -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
