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

Izik Eidus
2009-03-31T12:38:47Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Izik Eidus wrote:
>> I am sending another seires of patchs for kvm kernel and kvm-userspace
>> that would allow users of kvm to test ksm with it.
>> The kvm patchs would apply to Avi git tree.
>>
> Any reason to not take these through upstream QEMU instead of
> kvm-userspace? In principle, I don't see anything that would prevent
> normal QEMU from almost making use of this functionality. That would
> make it one less thing to eventually have to merge...

The changes for the kvm-userspace were just provided for testing it...
After we will have ksm inside the kernel we will send another patch to
qemu-devel that will add support for it.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori