Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/19] mm: process/cgroup ksm support

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 01:50:04PM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions. What is
> required to enable KSM for more workloads is to enable / disable it at the
> process / cgroup level.
> 
> Use case:
> The madvise call is not available in the programming language. An example for
> this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage collected language without
> pointers. In such a language madvise cannot be made available.
> 
> In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are garbage
> collected. KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside" for these type of
> workloads.

Don't you have source code to the interpreter for this mysterious
language?  Usually that would be where we put calls to madvise()



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