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Transcendent memory

Transcendent memory

Posted Jul 9, 2009 0:59 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Transcendent memory by johill
Parent article: Transcendent memory

If the client were responsible for hashing the page contents to produce the UUID, then the kernel wouldn't have to do it; it could rely on the UUID itself to identify sharable pages automatically.


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Transcendent memory

Posted Jul 9, 2009 14:35 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

That
  1. doesn't work – the host would still have to verify there are no hash collisions
  2. doesn't really make a difference afaict?

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