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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] add ksm kernel shared memory driver.
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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