Shaohua Li wrote:
>> So write to a file, right? Yes, it can avoid use move to swap, and
>> should be feasible.
> Say you want to write guest pages out to file A of back store fs, in
> kvm->writepage(), we could do:
> 1. lower_page = grap_cache_page(file A's mapping)
> 2. file A's ->prepare_write(lower_page)
> 3. copy kvm guest page to lower_page
> 4. file A's ->commit_write(lower_page)
> then guest page can be freed. Just like the stack fs does. The
> downside is step 1 needs allocate a new page.
Yeah. Hopefully we can find a better solution, the copy isn't pretty
(though it's probably not too bad from a performance point of view
compared to the IPIs involved).
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