From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:10:41 -0800 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Memory merging driver for Linux Message-ID: <20080123231037.GA3629@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <4794C2E1.8040607@qumranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4794C2E1.8040607@qumranet.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Izik Eidus Cc: kvm-devel , andrea@qumranet.com, avi@qumranet.com, dor.laor@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, yaniv@qumranet.com List-ID: * Izik Eidus (izike@qumranet.com) wrote: > this module find this identical data (pages) and merge them into one > single page > this new page is write protected so in any case the guest will try to > write to it do_wp_page will duplicate the page What happens if you've merged more pages than you can recover on write faults? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org