Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030435AbVKWWjA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:39:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030448AbVKWWhO (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:37:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:20663 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030444AbVKWWhI (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:37:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4384EEE9.3080809@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:36:25 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Gerd Knorr , Dave Jones , Zachary Amsden , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives References: <1132766489.7268.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4384AECC.1030403@zytor.com> <1132782245.13095.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123214344.GU20775@brahms.suse.de> <20051123222212.GV20775@brahms.suse.de> <4384EC68.1060302@zytor.com> <20051123223253.GX20775@brahms.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20051123223253.GX20775@brahms.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 18 Andi Kleen wrote: >>Well, with VTX or Pacifica virtualization is in ring 3. The fact that > > Not it's not. The whole point is that there is no "ring compression" > The guest has all its normal rings, just the hypervisor has additional > "negative" rings. > Uhm... maybe we think of it differently, but typically I consider the host rings (which is what I talked about above) as orthogonal to the guest ring. To the host, the guest is just a process in ring 3. -hpa - 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/