Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. | From | Martin Schwidefsky <> | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:08:17 +0200 |
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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.
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