From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753973AbZDNWP1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752138AbZDNWPL (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50250 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307AbZDNWPJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:15:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:09:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Izik Eidus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, ieidus@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 Message-Id: <20090414150903.b01fa3b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> References: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:58:37 +0300 Izik Eidus wrote: > KSM is a linux driver that allows dynamicly sharing identical memory > pages between one or more processes. Generally looks OK to me. But that doesn't mean much. We should rub bottles with words like "hugh" and "nick" on them to be sure. > > ... > > include/linux/ksm.h | 48 ++ > include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + > include/linux/mm.h | 5 + > include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 34 + > include/linux/rmap.h | 11 + > mm/Kconfig | 6 + > mm/Makefile | 1 + > mm/ksm.c | 1674 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > mm/memory.c | 90 +++- > mm/mmu_notifier.c | 20 + > mm/rmap.c | 139 ++++ And it's pretty unobtrusive for what it is. I expect we can get this into 2.6.31 unless there are some pratfalls which I missed. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:09:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20090414150903.b01fa3b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, ieidus@redhat.com To: Izik Eidus Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:58:37 +0300 Izik Eidus wrote: > KSM is a linux driver that allows dynamicly sharing identical memory > pages between one or more processes. Generally looks OK to me. But that doesn't mean much. We should rub bottles with words like "hugh" and "nick" on them to be sure. > > ... > > include/linux/ksm.h | 48 ++ > include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + > include/linux/mm.h | 5 + > include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 34 + > include/linux/rmap.h | 11 + > mm/Kconfig | 6 + > mm/Makefile | 1 + > mm/ksm.c | 1674 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > mm/memory.c | 90 +++- > mm/mmu_notifier.c | 20 + > mm/rmap.c | 139 ++++ And it's pretty unobtrusive for what it is. I expect we can get this into 2.6.31 unless there are some pratfalls which I missed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567ED5F0001 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:14:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:09:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 Message-Id: <20090414150903.b01fa3b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> References: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Izik Eidus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com List-ID: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:58:37 +0300 Izik Eidus wrote: > KSM is a linux driver that allows dynamicly sharing identical memory > pages between one or more processes. Generally looks OK to me. But that doesn't mean much. We should rub bottles with words like "hugh" and "nick" on them to be sure. > > ... > > include/linux/ksm.h | 48 ++ > include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + > include/linux/mm.h | 5 + > include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 34 + > include/linux/rmap.h | 11 + > mm/Kconfig | 6 + > mm/Makefile | 1 + > mm/ksm.c | 1674 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > mm/memory.c | 90 +++- > mm/mmu_notifier.c | 20 + > mm/rmap.c | 139 ++++ And it's pretty unobtrusive for what it is. I expect we can get this into 2.6.31 unless there are some pratfalls which I missed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org