Sunday 18 April 2010

Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory

Linux as a hypervisor includes a number of innovations, and one of the more interesting changes in the 2.6.32 kernel is Kernel Shared Memory (KSM).

KSM allows the hypervisor to increase the number of concurrent virtual machines by consolidating identical memory pages.

Source:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel-shared-memory/index.html

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