From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, aarcange@redhat.com,
chrisw@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:09:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090414150903.b01fa3b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239249521-5013-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com>
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:58:37 +0300
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> wrote:
> KSM is a linux driver that allows dynamicly sharing identical memory
> pages between one or more processes.
Generally looks OK to me. But that doesn't mean much. We should rub
bottles with words like "hugh" and "nick" on them to be sure.
>
> ...
>
> include/linux/ksm.h | 48 ++
> include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 +
> include/linux/mm.h | 5 +
> include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 34 +
> include/linux/rmap.h | 11 +
> mm/Kconfig | 6 +
> mm/Makefile | 1 +
> mm/ksm.c | 1674 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 90 +++-
> mm/mmu_notifier.c | 20 +
> mm/rmap.c | 139 ++++
And it's pretty unobtrusive for what it is. I expect we can get this
into 2.6.31 unless there are some pratfalls which I missed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 3:58 [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 Izik Eidus
2009-04-09 3:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] MMU_NOTIFIERS: add set_pte_at_notify() Izik Eidus
2009-04-09 3:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] add page_wrprotect(): write protecting page Izik Eidus
2009-04-09 3:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] add replace_page(): change the page pte is pointing to Izik Eidus
2009-04-09 3:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver Izik Eidus
2009-04-14 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 22:37 ` Izik Eidus
2009-04-15 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 23:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-04-16 0:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-16 0:57 ` Izik Eidus
2009-04-16 11:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-04-16 16:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-18 14:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-04-14 22:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] add replace_page(): change the page pte is pointing to Andrew Morton
2009-04-15 11:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-04-15 22:48 ` Izik Eidus
2009-04-14 22:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-16 17:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 Nick Piggin
2009-04-16 18:25 ` Izik Eidus
2009-04-17 7:08 ` Jared Hulbert
2009-04-21 2:59 ` Nick Piggin
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