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.
