Re: [PATCH V3] KSM: allow dedup all tasks memory

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

Hi.

> ksm by default working only on memory that added by
> madvise().
>
> And only way get that work on other applications:
>   * Use LD_PRELOAD and libraries
>   * Patch kernel
>
> Lets use kernel task list and add logic to import VMAs from tasks.
>
> That behaviour controlled by new attributes:
>   * mode:
>     I try mimic hugepages attribute, so mode have two states:
>       * madvise      - old default behaviour
>       * always [new] - allow ksm to get tasks vma and
>                        try working on that.
>   * seeker_sleep_millisecs:
>     Add pauses between imports tasks VMA
>
> For rate limiting proporses and tasklist locking time,
> ksm seeker thread only import VMAs from one task per loop.
>
> Some numbers from different not madvised workloads.
> Formulas:
>   Percentage ratio = (pages_sharing - pages_shared)/pages_unshared
>   Memory saved = (pages_sharing - pages_shared)*4/1024 MiB
>   Memory used = free -h
>
>   * Name: My working laptop
>     Description: Many different chrome/electron apps + KDE
>     Ratio: 5%
>     Saved: ~100  MiB
>     Used:  ~2000 MiB
>
>   * Name: K8s test VM
>     Description: Some small random running docker images
>     Ratio: 40%
>     Saved: ~160 MiB
>     Used:  ~920 MiB
>
>   * Name: Ceph test VM
>     Description: Ceph Mon/OSD, some containers
>     Ratio: 20%
>     Saved: ~60 MiB
>     Used:  ~600 MiB
>
>   * Name: BareMetal K8s backend server
>     Description: Different server apps in containers C, Java, GO & etc
>     Ratio: 72%
>     Saved: ~5800 MiB
>     Used:  ~35.7 GiB
>
>   * Name: BareMetal K8s processing server
>     Description: Many instance of one CPU intensive application
>     Ratio: 55%
>     Saved: ~2600 MiB
>     Used:  ~28.0 GiB
>
>   * Name: BareMetal Ceph node
>     Description: Only OSD storage daemons running
>     Raio: 2%
>     Saved: ~190 MiB
>     Used:  ~11.7 GiB

Out of curiosity, have you compared these results with UKSM [1]?

Thanks.

--
  Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)

[1] https://github.com/dolohow/uksm