Chris Wright wrote:
2) For all memory in a system, without patching all applications to
register with it
No.
Right now, an app must be modified to call madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE).
Further, the core scanning loop that ksmd performs is based on per-process
virtual memory regions rather than physical memory.
You mean only pages within the same process are de-duplicated?
Gordan
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