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Re: [Xen-devel] Essay on an important Xen decision (long)

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Essay on an important Xen decision (long)
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:52:16 +0000
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> To make it clearer, this hardware PT walker on IA64 is not like normal
> multi-level PT walker on x86. Instead it can be a virtually linear table,
> or a hash table which is configurable. ;-)

Am I right in thinking it's also possible to implement "software filled TLB"  
on IA64? (as a fallback for when the hardware assist fails?).  

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
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