Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:06:55 +0100 | From | Philipp Reisner <> | Subject | Re: mergemem: announce & design issues |
| |
Regis Duchesne wrote: > > > Mergemem can merge this anonymous mappings of already running processes. > This concept is quite interesting > > > *) If two equal pages are found, map one of them to the vm of both > > processes, and free the spare page. (done in kernel-land) > What do you mean by "two equal pages"? Do you only compare both checksums? > I hope that when checksums match, you compare both entire pages too, so > that the checksum is used as a hashcode only.
Of course, the module is comparing the pages with memcmp (see the function in the original posting, it is taken from the module)
Yours Philipp.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want to try something new? Are you a Linux hacker? Volunteer in testing mergemem! (Get it from http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem) ----- Philipp Reisner E-Mail mailto:e9525415@student.tuwien.ac.at
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
| |