Re: KSM without VT / KSM for all memory

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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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