Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] cleancache extension and memory checkpoint/restore

Hi Pavel --

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul () parallels ! com>
1. cleancache extension

In containerized systems, when containers are more or less equal to each
other, we can save RAM and (!) disk IOPS if we share equal files between
containers. We've been using a unionfs-like approach and faced several 
disadvantages of it (I can describe them in details if required).

Now we're working on extending the cleancache subsystem to achieve this 
sharing. The cost of fully isolated filesystems is very high, I can provide 
numbers of various performance experiments, thus this is required badly for
containers.

I agree this is a great use of cleancache!

FYI, the Xen implementation of transcendent memory optionally
does deduplication.  I think you are probably doing something
very similar so you may be able to leverage some code.  No changes
to cleancache are needed... you just need to register a different
"backend" (e.g. like zcache or RAMster or the Xen tmem stubs).

IIRC, the Xen implementation is much simpler than KSM because
the candidate pages are more closely managed.

Hopefully we can talk about it at LSF/MM!

Dan

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