Re: [patch 5/6] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization.

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 11:36:20 EST


Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Himanshu Raj

On of the challenges of the guest page hinting scheme is the cost for
the state transitions. If the cost gets too high the whole concept of
page state information is in question. Therefore it is important to
avoid the state transitions when possible.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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