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From: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
To: Ni zhan Chen <nizhan.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ksm questions
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:46:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5087D50D.8000101@ravellosystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5087CED1.2030307@gmail.com>

On 10/24/2012 01:19 PM, Ni zhan Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some questions about ksm.
>
> 1) khugepaged default nice value is 19, but ksmd default nice value is 
> 5, why this big different?
> 2) why ksm doesn't support pagecache and tmpfs now? What's the 
> bottleneck?
> 3) ksm kernel doc said that "KSM only merges anonymous(private) pages, 
> never pagecache(file) pages". But where judege it should be private?
> 4) ksm kernel doc said that "To avoid the instability and the 
> resulting false negatives to be permanent, KSM re-initializes the 
> unstable tree root node to an empty tree, at every KSM pass." But I 
> can't find where re-initializes the unstable tree, could you explain me?


in scan_get_next_rmap_item(), if (slot == &ksm_mm_head) then we do 
root_unstable_tree = RB_ROOT; this will result in root_unstable_tree 
being empty.

>
> Thanks in advance. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Chen
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 11:19 ksm questions Ni zhan Chen
2012-10-24 11:46 ` Izik Eidus [this message]
2012-10-24 11:59   ` Ni zhan Chen
2012-10-24 12:02     ` Izik Eidus
2012-10-24 12:16       ` Ni zhan Chen
2012-10-24 12:20         ` Izik Eidus
2012-10-24 12:35   ` Ni zhan Chen
2012-10-24 12:40   ` Ni zhan Chen

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