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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/12] Nested SVM cleanups
On 07/29/2009 04:58 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:59:48PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> On 07/29/2009 04:48 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>
>>> Performance isn't too bad even without this. At least if the host
>>> supports nested paging :) But shadow nested paging should give nested
>>> svm a real boost, thats very true.
>>>
>> Well, any workload that benefits from npt would benefit from nnpt a
>> lot more.
>>
>
> Most complicated part will be the two dimensional software page walker.
> That will be a somewhat intrusive change (at least if I do it without
> code duplication). But lets see how challenging this will become...
>

I think if you change the memory accessors to go through
kvm_read_guest_virt() again, you'll get it almost for free. You'll need
to supply a context so the accessors know which level you're accessing.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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