{"id":1207919,"date":"2023-11-29T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207919"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:45:22","slug":"an-overview-of-kernel-samepage-merging-ksm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207919","title":{"rendered":"[$] An overview of kernel samepage merging (KSM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/lpc.events\/event\/17\/sessions\/153\/\">Kernel Summit<br \/>\ntrack<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lpc.events\/event\/17\/page\/198-lpc-2023-overview\">2023 Linux<br \/>\nPlumbers Conference<\/a> (LPC), Stefan Roesch led a session on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/doc\/html\/latest\/admin-guide\/mm\/ksm.html\">kernel<br \/>\nsamepage merging<\/a> (KSM).  He gave an overview of the feature and described<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/928510\/\">some recent changes to KSM<\/a>.  He showed how<br \/>\nan application can enable KSM to deduplicate its memory and how the feature<br \/>\ncan be evaluated to  determine whether it is a good fit for new workloads.<br \/>\nIn addition, he provided some real-world data of the benefits from his<br \/>\nworkplace at Meta.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/953141\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[$] An overview of kernel samepage merging (KSM)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kernel Summit track at the 2023 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), Stefan Roesch led a session on kernel samepage merging (KSM). He gave an overview of the feature and described some recent changes to KSM. He showed how an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1207919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}