Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:52:21 +0300 | From | Izik Eidus <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] add ksm kernel shared memory driver. |
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Avi Kivity wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> The minor number you are using already belongs to another project. >> >> 10,234 is free but it would be good to know what device naming is >> proposed. I imagine other folks would like to know why you aren't using >> sysfs or similar or extending /dev/kvm ? >> > > ksm was deliberately made independent of kvm. While there may or may > not be uses of ksm without kvm (you could run ordinary qemu, but no > one would do this in a production deployment), keeping them separate > helps avoid unnecessary interdependencies. For example all tlb > flushes are mediated through mmu notifiers instead of ksm hooking > directly into kvm. > Yes, beside, I do use sysfs for controlling the ksm behavior, Ioctls are provided as easier way for application to register its memory.
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