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From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Timofey Titovets <timofey.titovets@synesis.ru>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	daniel@gruss.cc
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] KSM: allow dedup all tasks memory
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:35:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bDPeEsFwGAQf7f=YQ+s6aUTm-ApgFd2RR5JQQr-pi-aqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez29kArZTU=MgsVxWbuTZZ+sCrxeQ3FkDKpmQnj_MZ5hTg@mail.gmail.com>

> Wait, what? Can you name specific ones? Nowadays, enabling KSM for
> untrusted VMs seems like a terrible idea to me, security-wise.

Of course it is not used to share data among different
customers/tenants, as far as I know it is used by Oracle Cloud to
merge the same pages in clear containers.

https://medium.com/cri-o/intel-clear-containers-and-cri-o-70824fb51811
One performance enhancing feature is the use of KSM, a recent KVM
optimized for memory sharing and boot speed. Another is the use of an
optimized Clear Containers mini-OS.

Pasha

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<CAG48ez0ZprqUYGZFxcrY6U3Dnwt77q1NJXzzpsn1XNkRuXVppw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-13 14:23 ` [PATCH V3] KSM: allow dedup all tasks memory Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-11-13 17:59   ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 18:17     ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 18:35       ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 18:54         ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 19:16           ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 22:40             ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 22:53               ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 23:07                 ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 20:26     ` Jann Horn
2018-11-13 22:35       ` Pavel Tatashin [this message]
2018-11-13 18:20 Timofey Titovets
     [not found] <<20181112231344.7161-1-timofey.titovets@synesis.ru>
2018-11-13 11:06 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-11-13 11:56   ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 16:33 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-11-13 17:10   ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 17:27     ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2018-11-13 17:44       ` Timofey Titovets
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-12 23:13 Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13  1:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-13 11:25   ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13  2:25 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 11:40   ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 18:42     ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13 22:55       ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 11:57 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-13 12:58   ` Timofey Titovets
2018-11-13 13:25     ` Jann Horn

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