linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] SVM: Add Support for Nested Paging in AMD Fam16 CPUs

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Message-ID: <20080207120909.GE6960@amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:09:09 +0100
From:	"Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@....com>
To:	"Avi Kivity" <avi@...ranet.com>
cc:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] SVM: Add Support for Nested Paging
 in AMD Fam16 CPUs

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:57:07AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Very nice patchset; small, simple, and clean.  Apart from the comments
> I already posted, I'd like to avoid the term 'hap': I find it
> non-descriptive, and it reminds me of another hypervisor.  I suggest
> 'tlp' for two-level paging.

I renamed HAP to TDP. This stands for Two-Dimensional Paging and is the
term which descibes best what happens in my opinion.

Joerg

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