RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Replacing Xen's xmalloc engine and(?) API

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes.  Well, for basic page de-duplication it probably
is irrelevant, but for "advanced features" it will be
more capable because it will handle near-page-size
allocations much better.

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> From: Stefan de Konink [mailto:stefan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:12 PM
> To: Dan Magenheimer
> Cc: Xen-Devel (E-mail); Diwaker Gupta; nitingupta910@xxxxxxxxx; Kurt
> Hackel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Replacing Xen's xmalloc engine 
> and(?) API
> 
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> Dan Magenheimer schreef:
> > Xen hypervisor experts --
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> ...
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> > Comments?  (on both the API proposal and the engine)
> 
> Is this engine capable of progressing to a memory 
> de-duplication style?
> Or is that outside the scope?
> 
> 
> Stefan
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