Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:59:58 +1000 |
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On Friday 17 April 2009 17:08:07 Jared Hulbert wrote: > > As everyone knows, my favourite thing is to say nasty things about any > > new feature that adds complexity to common code. I feel like crying to > > hear about how many more instances of MS Office we can all run, if only > > we apply this patch. And the poorly written HPC app just sounds like > > scrapings from the bottom of justification barrel. > > > > I'm sorry, maybe I'm way off with my understanding of how important > > this is. There isn't too much help in the changelog. A discussion of > > where the memory savings comes from, and how far does things like > > sharing of fs image, or ballooning goes and how much extra savings we > > get from this... with people from other hypervisors involved as well. > > Have I missed this kind of discussion? > > Nick, > > I don't know about other hypervisors, fs and balloonings, but I have > tried this out. It works. It works on apps I don't consider, "poorly > written". I'm very excited about this. I got >10% saving in a > roughly off the shelf embedded system. No user noticeable performance > impact.
OK well that's what I want to hear. Thanks, that means a lot to me.
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