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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: KSM For All Via LD_PRELOAD?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0E8F3B.5060501@bobich.net> (raw)

Is this plausible?

I'm trying to work out if it's even worth considering this approach to 
enable all memory used by in a system to be open to KSM page merging, 
rather than only memory used by specific programs aware of it (e.g. 
kvm/qemu).

Something like this would address the fact that container based 
virtualization (OpenVZ, VServer, LXC) cannot benefit from KSM.

What I'm thinking about is somehow intercepting malloc() and wrapping it 
so that all malloc()-ed memory gets madvise()-d as well.

Has this been done?

Or is this too crazy an idea?

Gordan

             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 18:43 Gordan Bobic [this message]
2010-06-09  8:33 ` KSM For All Via LD_PRELOAD? Dor Laor
2010-06-09  8:56   ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-09 10:31     ` Gordan Bobic
2010-06-10  7:33       ` Dor Laor
2010-06-10  9:03         ` Gordan Bobic
2010-06-10  7:44 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-06-10  9:09   ` Gordan Bobic
2010-06-10 11:27     ` Jes Sorensen

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