linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for paravirt

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702161312460.28871@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:13:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/21] Xen-paravirt: Xen guest implementation for
 paravirt_ops interface

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> For the most part, it doesn't disturb VMware or KVM.  Xen does need some
> additional functionality in paravirt-ops because they took a different design
> choice - direct page tables instead of shadow page tables.  This is where all
> the requirements for the new Xen paravirt-ops hooks come from.

It still seems to be implemented for Xen and not to support a variety of 
page table methods in paravirt ops.

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