From: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] ksm: NUMA trees and page migration
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:26:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51073345.4070605@ravellosystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51071CA0.801@ravellosystems.com>
On 01/29/2013 02:49 AM, Izik Eidus wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 01:54 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:53:10 -0800 (PST)
>> Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a KSM series
>> Sanity check: do you have a feeling for how useful KSM is?
>> Performance/space improvements for typical (or atypical) workloads?
>> Are people using it? Successfully?
BTW, After thinking a bit about the word people, I wanted to see if
normal users of linux
that just download and install Linux (without using special
virtualization product) are able to use it.
So I google little bit for it, and found some nice results from users:
http://serverascode.com/2012/11/11/ksm-kvm.html
But I do agree that it provide justifying value only for virtualization
users...
>
> Hi,
> I think it mostly used for virtualization, I know at least two
> products that it use -
> RHEV - RedHat enterprise virtualization, and my current place (Ravello
> Systems) that use it to do vm consolidation on top of cloud enviorments
> (Run multiple unmodified VMs on top of one vm you get from ec2 /
> rackspace / what so ever), for Ravello it is highly critical in
> achieving high rate
> of consolidation ratio...
>
>>
>> IOW, is it justifying itself?
>
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-26 1:53 Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 1:54 ` [PATCH 1/11] ksm: allow trees per NUMA node Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 1:14 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 2:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 3:16 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 21:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 1:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 1:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-05 16:41 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-07 23:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 1:56 ` [PATCH 2/11] ksm: add sysfs ABI Documentation Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 1:58 ` [PATCH 3/11] ksm: trivial tidyups Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 1:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 1:59 ` [PATCH 4/11] ksm: reorganize ksm_check_stable_tree Hugh Dickins
2013-02-05 16:48 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-08 0:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-14 11:30 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-26 2:00 ` [PATCH 5/11] ksm: get_ksm_page locked Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 2:36 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 22:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 0:36 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-28 3:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 2:48 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 22:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-05 17:18 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-08 0:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-14 11:34 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-26 2:01 ` [PATCH 6/11] ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 4:55 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 23:05 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 1:42 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-28 4:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 2:12 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-28 4:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 6:36 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-28 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 2:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-05 17:55 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-08 19:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-14 11:58 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-14 22:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 2:03 ` [PATCH 7/11] ksm: make KSM page migration possible Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 5:47 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 23:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 0:41 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-28 3:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-05 19:11 ` Mel Gorman
2013-02-08 20:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 2:05 ` [PATCH 8/11] ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 8:49 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 23:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 3:44 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-26 2:06 ` [PATCH 9/11] ksm: enable KSM page migration Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 2:07 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: remove offlining arg to migrate_pages Hugh Dickins
2013-01-26 2:10 ` [PATCH 11/11] ksm: stop hotremove lockdep warning Hugh Dickins
2013-01-27 6:23 ` Simon Jeons
2013-01-27 23:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-02-08 18:45 ` Gerald Schaefer
2013-02-11 22:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-28 23:54 ` [PATCH 0/11] ksm: NUMA trees and page migration Andrew Morton
2013-01-29 0:49 ` Izik Eidus
2013-01-29 2:26 ` Izik Eidus [this message]
2013-01-29 16:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2013-01-31 0:05 ` Ric Mason
2013-01-29 1:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-29 10:45 ` Gleb Natapov
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