On 9/11/2010 8:04 AM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
Hi Sri... On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:19, Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all, I have a question on MMU. Memory management is used to segregate the memory between process and make sure no process steps on each other. Also, it provides abstraction to whole available memory in a conceptual way called virtual address. Now my question is, we can do all this in software, I mean simulate and map the virtual address to physical address not taking hardware support. Now why is the hardware unit MMU is given with processor. Is there any special reason.It sounds like you're comparing the situation between full software virtualization without any help (Xen dom0 in non VT/SVM enabled processor) VS KVM in VT/SVM enabled processor. Got the picture? You could draw the advantage? One word: speed....
Speed definitely . And it reduces the complexity of the code. Easier on us developers. :-) Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
