Re: [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache.

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Sep 15 2006 - 13:54:39 EST


In-Reply-To: <1158309400.23993.9.camel@localhost>

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:36:39 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky 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...

--
Chuck

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