Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 05/12] tmem: Delete deduplication (and tze) code.

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 28.09.16 at 11:42, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Couple of reasons:
>  - It can lead to security issues (see row-hammer, KSM and such
>    attacks).
>  - Code is quite complex.
>  - Deduplication is good if the pages themselves are the same
>    but that is hardly guaranteed.
>  - We got some gains (if pages are deduped) but at the cost of
>    making code less maintainable.
>  - tze depends on deduplication code.
> 
> As such, deleting it.

So why the prior two patches then? That way you've got more to
delete here than without.

Jan


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