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 ?
-- Pasi
> (2) most of the overhead for searching will be in moving data from RAM to
> cache... the CPU overhead is probably a small fraction so a GPU may not
> help much (unless it has a much wider bus to RAM); (3) in tmem's current
> deduplication implementation, the search is done synchronously on every
> put_page... I don't know if this will work well asynchronously due to
> locking, existing data structures, etc.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> From: Kaustubh Kabra [mailto:kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:09 PM
> To: Xen-devel
> Cc: Dan Magenheimer
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)
>
>
>
> To solve memory deduplication in Xen using Gpu :
>
> Current problem :
> If Memory deduplication is done on Cpu ,a lot of memory is used for data
> structures and lot of computation time is wasted in finding duplicate page
> and becomes waste, if duplicate page is not found.
>
> Proposed GPU solution: Let Gpu perform seraching for a shared page using
> multiple threads in parallel,improving searching operation and save data
> structures on GPU device memory ,which is possible. Communication between
> Cpu and Gpu can be done using inter processor synchronization which is
> also possible. Cpu process will run as a daemon that will invoke gpu
> process when ever deduplication is scheduled / if performance is good
> enough then for every page written in memory.
>
> Correct me , if anything is wrong.
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Dan Magenheimer
> <[1]dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In my opinion, both could be useful projects.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kaustubh Kabra [mailto:[2]kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:02 PM
> > To: Xen-devel
> > Cc: Dan Magenheimer
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Memory de-duplication (Persistent pages)
> >
>
> > Sir,
> >
> > We are pretty clear with the internal working of tmem.
> > Now as "ephemeral" pages are already de-duplicated in current
> > implementation .
> >
> > 1>>So, we propose to do sharing of "persistent" pages also .
> > 2>>We also propose n/w bipass manager for "tmem" as its not existing
> > currently.
> >
> > Will it be really useful ?
> > If yes, it will be implemented within stipulated time frame.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> --
> Kaustubh Kabra
> [3]http://www.kaustubhwise.000a.biz
>
> References
>
> Visible links
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> 2. mailto:kaustubhwise@xxxxxxxxx
> 3. http://www.kaustubhwise.000a.biz/
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