Re: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)

[Kaustubh Kabra <kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx>]

To solve memory deduplication in Xen using Gpu :

Current problem :
If
Memory deduplication is done on Cpu ,a lot of memory is used for data
structures and lot of computation time is wasted in finding duplicate
page and becomes waste, if duplicate page is not found.

Proposed GPU solution: Let Gpu perform seraching for a shared page
using multiple threads in parallel,improving searching operation and
save data structures on GPU device memory ,which is possible.
Communication between Cpu and Gpu can be done using inter processor
synchronization which is also possible. Cpu process will run as a
daemon that will invoke gpu process when ever deduplication is
scheduled / if performance is good enough then for every page written
in memory.

Correct me , if anything is wrong.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my opinion, both could be useful projects.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaustubh Kabra [mailto:kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: Xen-devel
> Cc: Dan Magenheimer
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)
>

> Sir,
>
> We are pretty clear with the internal working of tmem.
> Now as "ephemeral" pages are already de-duplicated in current
> implementation .
>
> 1>>So, we propose to do sharing of "persistent" pages also .
> 2>>We also propose n/w bipass manager for "tmem" as its not existing
> currently.
>
> Will it be really useful ?
> If yes, it will be implemented within stipulated time frame.
>
> Thank you.

-- 
Kaustubh Kabra
http://www.kaustubhwise.000a.biz


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