> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
