Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] loader: enable roms, kernel and firmware files for KSM sharing

2016-09-20 Thread no-reply
: enable roms, kernel and firmware files for KSM sharing === TEST SCRIPT BEGIN === #!/bin/bash set -e git submodule update --init dtc make J=8 docker-test-quick@centos6 make J=8 docker-test-mingw@fedora === TEST SCRIPT END === Updating 3c8cf5a9c21ff8782164d1def7f44bd888713384 Switched to a new

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] loader: enable roms, kernel and firmware files for KSM sharing

2016-09-20 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Early patch for feedback. With lots of similar small guests a big part of memory is consumed by the ROMs that are reloaded at each start. We can reduce the memory consumption by allowing KSM on this data. This patches reduces the memory consumption of 200 guests with a vmlinux as kernel + busybox