From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Memory merging driver for Linux Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:10:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20080123231037.GA3629@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <4794C2E1.8040607@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andrea-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, yaniv-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, kvm-devel , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org To: Izik Eidus Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4794C2E1.8040607-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Izik Eidus (izike-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org) wrote: > this module find this identical data (pages) and merge them into one > single page > this new page is write protected so in any case the guest will try to > write to it do_wp_page will duplicate the page What happens if you've merged more pages than you can recover on write faults? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/