Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: mmap guest kernel instead of reading it into memory

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On 12/12/2011 04:47 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This patch mmaps guest kernel into it's own memory slot instead of reading
> it into the memory.
>
> The advantages are:
>  - Smaller memory footprint (same effect as KSM if running multiple guests)
>  - Faster loading of larger kernels.
>

How many COW faults do you get when loading a kernel?  Would be
interesting to try both smp and up guests.

Surprisingly, there is no tracepoint for that that I can see, but you
can probe do_wp_page() and count it.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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