[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] A Problem with Page Cache in Xen
Is the (prototype) memory-sharing code mentioned in your last email already offered in Xen resource code?
Thank you for your help. At 2012-01-30 17:47:31,"Tim Deegan" <tim@xxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi, > >At 16:11 +0800 on 30 Jan (1327939919), hxkhust wrote: >> On a physical machine with xen virtualization platform installed ,VM >> A,VM B are VM C's virtual disks are all image files,among which VM A >> and VM B's virtual disks are QCOW2 format and VM C's disk is RAW >> format. And VM A and VM B's virtual disk image files are based on VM >> C's virtual disk image file.Now these three VMs are running on the >> same physical machine with xen installed. In the process of running VM >> A get a page data from VM C's virtual disk image file. After that ,VM >> B also need to get the same page data as VM A got just now.Under this >> situation, does VMM copy the page data from VM A's memory to VM B's >> memory or get the page data from VM C's virtual disk image file in the >> physical disk again? > >It reads it from the disk again, unless you're using the (prototype) >memory-sharing code that's in blktap. > >> Or if I would like to figure out this problem,what shall I do? > >Instrument the disk, or read the code. > >Tim. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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