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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interfac

To: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interface proposal
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:04:58 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> About performance - I actually believe that it is possible to implement 
> VMI Linux in such a way that it actually has _better_ performance on Xen 
> than the current XenoLinux kernels.

How would VMI allow page table batching at fault time?
(one of the future optimizations that are probably worth
making for Xen)

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