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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/5] virtio-balloon: free page hint reporting support

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:40:46 +0300

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:42:40PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > I think the answer is no - it doesn't matter; by telling the hypervisor
> > the page is 'free' the kernel gives freedom to the hypervisor to
> > discard the page contents.
> 
> Yeh it seems so.

Well not exactly.  I replied to parent with a clarification.

References:
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/5] virtio-balloon: free page hint reporting support
  - From: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>