From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:49:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491A0BE5.1050407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491A0483.3010504@redhat.com>
Izik Eidus wrote:
>> Any benchmarks on the runtime cost of having KSM running?
>>
>
> This one is problematic, ksm can take anything from 0% to 100% cpu
> its all depend on how fast you run it.
> it have 3 parameters:
> number of pages to scan before it go to sleep
> maximum number of pages to merge while we scanning the above pages
> (merging is expensive)
> time to sleep (when runing from userspace using /dev/ksm, we actually
> do it there (userspace)
The scan process priority also has its effect. One strategy would be to
run it at idle priority as long as you have enough free memory, and
increase the priority as memory starts depleting.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-11 13:21 [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] rmap: add page_wrprotect() function, Izik Eidus, Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add replace_page(), change the mapping of pte from one page into another Izik Eidus, Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver Izik Eidus, Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] MMU_NOTIFIRES: add set_pte_at_notify() Izik Eidus, Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 20:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 22:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 22:03 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-11-11 22:17 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 22:25 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-11-11 22:31 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 22:30 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-11-11 22:38 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 23:02 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 23:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 22:49 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-11-11 22:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-11-13 6:13 ` Eric Rannaud
2008-11-11 22:43 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-11 19:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add replace_page(), change the mapping of pte from one page into another Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 20:57 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 21:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-11 21:23 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 21:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-11 21:37 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 22:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-12 2:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-12 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 11:11 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-13 6:11 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-13 10:38 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-13 11:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-11 21:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 21:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 21:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-11 21:39 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-11 21:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-11 21:55 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 22:36 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-11 22:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 22:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-11 23:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 23:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-12 0:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 2:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-12 3:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 17:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-12 20:08 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-11-12 20:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 20:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-12 22:09 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-11-13 2:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-13 2:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-13 4:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-11 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] rmap: add page_wrprotect() function, Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 20:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 21:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 21:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 18:30 ` [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 18:48 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-11 19:08 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 19:18 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11 19:52 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 20:08 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 19:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-11 19:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-11-11 19:07 ` Izik Eidus
2008-11-11 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-17 2:20 [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v2 Izik Eidus
2008-11-17 2:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] Rmap: Add page_wrprotect() function Izik Eidus
2008-11-17 2:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add replace_page(): change the page pte is pointing to Izik Eidus
2008-11-17 2:20 ` [PATCH 3/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver Izik Eidus
2008-11-28 16:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-02 18:07 ` Chris Wright
2008-12-02 18:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-02 21:24 ` Chris Wright
2008-12-02 21:37 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-12-02 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-03 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-04 9:48 ` Alan Cox
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