On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 18:53 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/02/2011 07:46 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > Do you want to create read only memory slots for kvm tool? > > > > What KVM tool currently does is copy the kernel into guest memory and > > run it from there. An idea raised recently was instead of copying it we > > should mmap it into the memory to reduce footprint. > > > > This is why I'm looking into adding a read only memory slot. The KVM > > code doesn't have to know it's read only. > > The kernel will patch itself very early. You need to use MAP_PRIVATE > (and thus have a read/write area). It will be interesting to see what > fraction of the memory is modified. > > Note that mapping will remove benefits like huge page support, and that > you can get page sharing by using ksm. Still, it's interesting to see > where this goes. Why would I lose hugepage if the kernel gets it's own memory slot? -- Sasha. -- 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
