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On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 13:50 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > I wonder which trick you use, since there is only one page table one > > i386 I can only imagine that you are tracking all page tables of the > > guest.> > AMD K8 with the SVM feature has host and guest page tables and > address-space identifiers for the guests so their global TLB flushes > can be limited to their own address space... Yeah, I know about the nested page tables on K8. But VMware will not restrict themselves to K8 only, so they need a clever way to implement shadow page tables on i386 chips without this feature. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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