Messages in this thread | | | From | Liang Li <> | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:13:12 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm: support free hugepage pre zero out |
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> > Free page reporting in virtio-balloon doesn't give you any guarantees > > regarding zeroing of pages. Take a look at the QEMU implementation - > > e.g., with vfio all reports are simply ignored. > > > > Also, I am not sure if mangling such details ("zeroing of pages") into > > the page reporting infrastructure is a good idea. > > > > Oh, now I get what you are doing here, you rely on zero_free_pages of > your other patch series and are not relying on virtio-balloon free page > reporting to do the zeroing. > > You really should have mentioned that this patch series relies on the > other one and in which way.
I am sorry for that. After I sent out the patch, I realized I should mention that, so I sent out an updated version which added the information you mentioned :)
Thanks ! Liang
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