From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 05/12] tmem: Delete deduplication (and tze) code.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:05:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928150558.GC5546@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57EBD4EB02000078001134F9@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 06:34:19AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.09.16 at 11:42, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Couple of reasons:
> > - It can lead to security issues (see row-hammer, KSM and such
> > attacks).
> > - Code is quite complex.
> > - Deduplication is good if the pages themselves are the same
> > but that is hardly guaranteed.
> > - We got some gains (if pages are deduped) but at the cost of
> > making code less maintainable.
> > - tze depends on deduplication code.
> >
> > As such, deleting it.
>
> So why the prior two patches then? That way you've got more to
> delete here than without.
Um. I thought it would be easier to understand which parts of
the code are it by first putting a bunch of #ifdefs around it.
But the end result is the same - code gets removed. I will squash
those two patches in this one.
>
> Jan
>
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 9:42 [PATCH v1] Tmem cleanups/improvements for v4.8 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 01/12] libxc/tmem/restore: Remove call to XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_VERSION Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:00 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 02/12] tmem: Retire XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET_CAP|SAVE_GET_CLIENT_CAP] Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:00 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 15:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 12:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 14:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 03/12] tmem: Wrap tmem dedup code with CONFIG_TMEM_DEDUP Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 12:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 04/12] tmem: Wrap tmem tze code with CONFIG_TMEM_TZE Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 12:19 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 05/12] tmem: Delete deduplication (and tze) code Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 12:34 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 15:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 06/12] tmem: Move client weight, frozen, live_migrating, and compress Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 12:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 07/12] tmem/libxc: Squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[SET|SAVE] Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:06 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 12:50 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 08/12] tmem: Handle 'struct tmem_info' as a seperate field in the Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:00 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 12:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 14:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-30 14:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-30 16:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 09/12] tmem: Check version and maxpools when XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_SET_CLIENT_INFO Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:00 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 12:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 10/12] tmem: Unify XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_[[SAVE_[BEGIN|END]|RESTORE_BEGIN] Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:06 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 13:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 11/12] tmem/xc_tmem_control: Rename 'arg1' to 'len' and 'arg2' to arg Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:07 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 9:42 ` [PATCH v1 12/12] tmem: Batch and squash XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_SAVE_GET_POOL_[FLAGS, NPAGES, UUID] in one sub-call: XEN_SYSCTL_TMEM_OP_GET_POOLS Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-09-28 11:07 ` Wei Liu
2016-09-28 13:11 ` Jan Beulich
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