>> Why would your suggestion still be applicable? >> >> Your point for now is "I might not want to have page hinting enabled due to >> the overhead, but still a live migration speedup". If that overhead actually >> exists (we'll have to see) or there might be another reason to disable page >> hinting, then we have to decide if that specific setup is worth it merging your >> changes. > > All the above "if we have", "assume we have" don't sound like a valid argument to me. Argument? *confused* And that hinders you from answering the question "Why would your suggestion still be applicable?" ? Well, okay. So I will answer it by myself: Because somebody would want to disable page hinting. Maybe there are some people out there. > >> I am not (and don't want to be) in the position to make any decisions here :) I >> just want to understand if two interfaces for free pages actually make sense. > > I responded to Nitesh about the differences, you may want to check with him about this. > I would suggest you to send out your patches to LKML to get a discussion with the mm folks. Indeed, Nitesh is trying to solve the problems we found in the RFC, so this can take some time. > > Best, > Wei > -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
