Re: Automatic page sharing/consolidation

[Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm using dozens of VE's / jails to separate applications
>> (even complete webapps w/ their own httpd) for easier maintenance
>> and better security. But this tends to consume a lot of memory,
>> since code sharing (.so's) cannot take effect here (each jail/VE
>> has it's completely own tree).
>> Now I wonder if it might be possible to let the kernel automatically
>> find out equal pages and map them together.
>> A little compasion showed up that at least 50% of the code could be
>> shared (maybe more with some tuning, and maybe even data). So it's
>> (IMHO) really worth it.
>>
>> Would this be possible ? What had to be done for this ?
>>   
> 
> Izik (copied) is working on this for kvm.  Results so far are very
> encouraging, but currently merged pages are not swappable.
> 
we have module that posted with kernel patchs in the mm list, you can actualy run it and play with it
there were some bugs that we fixed with it, but i am still not sending it, beacuse i change there quite alot of things
in order to get swapping possible for the pages that are shared.
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woof.