Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:08:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] ksm - dynamic page sharing driver for linux v3 | From | Jared Hulbert <> |
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> 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.
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