Re: [PATCH v2] ksm: allow dedup all tasks memory

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:26:10AM +0300, Timofey Titovets wrote:
> ksm by default working only on memory that added by
> madvice().
> 
> And only way get that work on other applications:
>  - Use LD_PRELOAD and libraries
>  - Patch kernel
> 
> Lets use kernel task list in ksm_scan_thread and add logic to allow ksm
> import VMA from tasks.
> That behaviour controlled by new attribute: mode
> I try mimic hugepages attribute, so mode have two states:
>  - normal       - old default behaviour
>  - always [new] - allow ksm to get tasks vma and try working on that.
> 
> To reduce CPU load & tasklist locking time,
> ksm try import VMAs from one task per loop.
> 
> So add new attribute "mode"
> Two passible values:
>  - normal [default] - ksm use only madvice
>  - always [new]     - ksm will search vma over all processes memory and
>                       add it to the dedup list

Do you have any numbers for how much difference this change makes with
various different workloads?