Bug#556631: KSM support
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Hi,
> > But at:
> > http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00793.html
> >
> > I was told to wait for upstream GNU glibc support, for a routine merge.
>
> That's actually the reverse. You should submit the patch to upstream GNU
> libc, so that it is merged later in EGLIBC.
>
Yes, that's what I meant.
> > KSM will be present in the 2.6.32 kernel, which is going to be released
> > soon. It might be nice if Debian could include this patch earlier, since
> > for us eglibc is the default libc, so that as soon as that kernel is out
> > and the kvm/qemu people package a version with KSM support, the
> > compilers will pick up the flag and KSM will work in unstable/squeeze.
> > (qemu/kvm code has an #ifdef which means that they will be compiled
> > without kvm if glibc doesn't have the flag)
> >
>
> Given it changes the API, I would prefer to see it accepted upstream
> first.
>
But given that it's in the upcoming kernel, and also a feature the newest Fedora
is shipping with it
(http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3848441/Fedora+12+Linux+Tackles+Virtualization.htm)
is there any reason why this wouldn't reach upstream anyway?
Thanks,
Guido
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