From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7EC55F0001 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:42:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:42:41 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v2 Message-ID: <20090406134240.GK9137@random.random> References: <1238855722-32606-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <200904061704.50052.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200904061704.50052.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: Izik Eidus , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com List-ID: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:04:49PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > They should use a shared memory segment, or MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_SHARED etc. > Presumably they will probably want to control it to interleave it over > all numa nodes and use hugepages for it. It would be very little work. I thought it's the intermediate result of the computations that leads to lots of equal data too, in which case ksm is the only way to share it all. -- 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