Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9] x86/mem-sharing: mem-sharing a range of memory

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:14:27AM -0600, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
> > Currently mem-sharing can be performed on a page-by-page basis from the 
> > control
> > domain. However, this process is quite wasteful when a range of pages have 
> > to
> > be deduplicated.
> > 
> > This patch introduces a new mem_sharing memop for range sharing where
> > the user doesn't have to separately nominate each page in both the source 
> > and
> > destination domain, and the looping over all pages happen in the hypervisor.
> > This significantly reduces the overhead of sharing a range of memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I notice this patch has got sufficient acks.
> 
> I will queue this up.

Pushed.

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