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RE: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:34:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Xen-devel <Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kaustubh Kabra <kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx>
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> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 12:24 PM
> To: Dan Magenheimer
> Cc: Kaustubh Kabra; Xen-devel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:22:29AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> >    This is an interesting idea, but  (1) there is no "standard " GPU
> so I
> >    don't think it will be possible to write Xen code generically for
> this;
> >
> 
> How about things like OpenCL ?

While I know nothing about OpenCL other than a quick read
in wikipedia, I suspect that putting an OpenCL abstraction
layer in the hypervisor is not going to be popular with
Xen developers. :-)

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