computing, kernel same-page merging (KSM), also known as kernel shared memory, memory merging, memory deduplication, and page deduplication is a kernel feature...
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Hyper-V Kernel same-page merging (KSM) Lguest libguestfs Open Virtualization Alliance OpenNebula OpenStack Red Hat Virtualization Vx32 Xen "Linux kernel 2.6...
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10-rc1 - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree". git.kernel.org. Retrieved 16 June 2024. "The Linux Kernel Archives". Kernel.org. Retrieved...
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Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI or PTI, previously called KAISER) is a Linux kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability (affecting...
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patches to the Linux kernel that adds Rust as a second programming language to C for writing kernel components. The Linux kernel has been primarily written...
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KSM (category All article disambiguation pages)
KSM may refer to: Kernel same-page merging, sharing identical computer memory pages among processes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, terrorist held at Guantanamo...
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resources include CPU pinning, defining NUMA topology, enabling kernel same-page merging, memory over-provisioning, HA VM reservation etc. Virtual machine...
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The Linux kernel is a free and open source,: 4 UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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them to the same physical page by a technique termed kernel same-page merging (KSM). This is especially useful for read-only pages, such as those holding...
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combined algorithm is similar to demand paging. Copy-on-write pages are also used in the Linux kernel's same-page merging feature. COW is also used in library...
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elements are being sorted. The Linux kernel uses merge sort for its linked lists. Timsort, a tuned hybrid of merge sort and insertion sort is used in variety...
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Cgroups (redirect from Kernel memory control groups)
"container" in the Linux kernel context, and the control groups functionality was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 2.6.24, which was...
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July 2001 as a patch for the Linux kernel. It is seen as a complete implementation, providing a patch for kernel stack randomization since October 2002...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Kernel mode setting)
official Linux kernel. In 2010 the nouveau source code was merged into Linux 2.6.33 as an experimental driver. At the time of merging, the driver had...
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that can run programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel. It is the successor to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, with the "e" originally...
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History of Linux (redirect from History of the Linux kernel)
student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history...
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mapping them to the same physical page by a technique known as Kernel SamePage Merging. This is particularly useful for read-only pages, such as those that...
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Git (section Merging strategies)
created for use in the development of the Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds and others developing the kernel. As with most other distributed version control...
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Security-Enhanced Linux (category Linux kernel features)
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including...
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interface (API) in the Linux kernel: the "kernel–user space" API; and the "kernel internal" API. The Linux API includes the kernel–user space API, which allows...
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QNX (redirect from QNX kernel)
Processing. This allows the QNX kernels on separate devices to access each other's system services using effectively the same communication mechanism as is...
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Linux namespaces (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
Namespaces are a feature of the Linux kernel that partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set...
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Deadline Scheduler is an I/O scheduler, or disk scheduler, for the Linux kernel. It was written in 2002 by Jens Axboe. The main purpose of Deadline Scheduler...
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Operating system (category Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism)
been allocated to it, the kernel is interrupted . This kind of interrupt is typically a page fault. When the kernel detects a page fault it generally adjusts...
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FreeBSD (redirect from FreeBSD kernel)
system, delivering a kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers, and relying...
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for large files, increased memory, and multi-threaded kernel (light-weight processes). This merged codebase is referred to as UNIX System V Release 5 (SVR5)...
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patch was released to the Linux kernel mailing list on May 2, 2003, but was rejected for merging with the base kernel because it involved some intrusive...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
interface (ABI), Red Hat does not update the kernel version, but instead backports new features to the same kernel version with which a particular version...
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Udev (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
manager for the Linux kernel. As the successor of devfsd and hotplug, udev primarily manages device nodes in the /dev directory. At the same time, udev also...
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Linus Torvalds (category Linux kernel programmers)
Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored...
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