Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] ARM: KVM: Handle guest faults in KVM

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>> >
>> >  What are your thoughts about mmu notifier support?
>>
>> For what purpose? There is no swapping on ARM, so only case that jumps
>> to my mind is for KSM. And I'm not quite there yet :)
>
> Really?  I imaging swapping will be needed for server workloads.  mmu
> notifiers are also useful for transparent hugepages and page migrations.  I
> imagine these will all follow if ARM servers take off.
>

You may be right, but I guess it depends how ARM servers are going to
be used. I agree though, swapping could very well be useful in an ARM
server scenario and at that time mmu notifier integration should be
looked into, but it's not in my critical path yet.

Thanks for the input.
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