On Thu 19-05-16 12:17:14, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu 19-05-16 10:20:13, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > >> Has anyone thought about sharing pages between multiple files? > >> > >> The obvious application is for COW filesytems where there are > >> logically distinct files that physically share data and could easily > >> share the cache as well if there was infrastructure for it. > > > > FYI this has been discussed at LSFMM this year[1]. I wasn't at the > > session so cannot tell you any details but the LWN article covers it at > > least briefly. > > Cool, so it's not such a crazy idea. FWIW it is ;) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
