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Subject: Re: [RFC] respect the referenced bit of KVM guest pages?
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Dike, Jeffrey G<jeffrey.g.dike@intel.com> wrote:
>> Page discards by the host, which are invisible to the guest
>> OS.
>
> Duh.  Right - I can't keep my VM systems straight...
>

Sounds like we need a way of indicating reference information. Guest
page hinting (cough; cough) anyone? May be a simpler version?

Balbir Singh.