Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux

Andrew Morton
2008-11-11T19:33:23Z

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:18:23 +0200
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> 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.