Hello.
I noticed an interesting thing here, with qemu-kvm, KSM and
hugepages.
When I initially enabled KSM, for my two windows guests I've
seen ~100 000 pages in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared .
That's quite good, and overall memory usage improved.
Now, I also enabled hugepages in kvm, which speed things
up quite significantly (the speedup is noticeable).
But now, when both KSM and hugepages are activated, I don't
see KSM in action anymore. /sys/../mm/pages_shared shows
56 pages, which is nothing.
So I wonder what's up:
o that's 56 _huge_ pages (which means the actual saving
is 56*2M = 112Mb, which isn't really bad). If that's
the case, /sys/../mm/ interface lacks proper units
reporting;
o due to large pages there's much less chance to find
two pages with identical contents, so very little can
be shared;
o KSM does not scan hugepages at all
o something else.
What is the issue here?