From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] add ksm kernel shared memory driver. Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:11:07 +0300 Message-ID: <49EC584B.3060809@redhat.com> References: <1240191366-10029-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-2-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-4-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-5-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1240191366-10029-6-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <20090420110223.76ba4593@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Izik Eidus , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com To: Alan Cox Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090420110223.76ba4593@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > The minor number you are using already belongs to another project. > > 10,234 is free but it would be good to know what device naming is > proposed. I imagine other folks would like to know why you aren't using > sysfs or similar or extending /dev/kvm ? > ksm was deliberately made independent of kvm. While there may or may not be uses of ksm without kvm (you could run ordinary qemu, but no one would do this in a production deployment), keeping them separate helps avoid unnecessary interdependencies. For example all tlb flushes are mediated through mmu notifiers instead of ksm hooking directly into kvm. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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