Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751281AbWIORyU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:54:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751283AbWIORyU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:54:20 -0400 Received: from liaag1ad.mx.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.30]:41426 "EHLO liaag1ad.mx.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbWIORyT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:54:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:50:55 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Zachary Amsden , linux-kernel , virtualization , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin Message-ID: <200609151352_MC3-1-CB54-526A@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 699 Lines: 20 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 - 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/