From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:32:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux Message-Id: <20081111113247.c2b0f1ac.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4919DA7F.5090106@redhat.com> References: <1226409701-14831-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <20081111103051.979aea57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4919D370.7080301@redhat.com> <20081111111110.decc0f06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4919DA7F.5090106@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Izik Eidus Cc: avi@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com List-ID: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:18:23 +0200 Izik Eidus wrote: > > hm. > > > > There has been the occasional discussion about idenfifying all-zeroes > > pages and scavenging them, repointing them at the zero page. Could > > this infrastructure be used for that? (And how much would we gain from > > it?) > > > > [I'm looking for reasons why this is more than a muck-up-the-vm-for-kvm > > thing here ;) ] ^^ this? > KSM is separate driver , it doesn't change anything in the VM but adding > two helper functions. What, you mean I should actually read the code? Oh well, OK. -- 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