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Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] PV guest + shadow paging
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:05:37 +0100
Cc: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Levin Johnson <levin.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 24/10/07 11:00, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tim Deegan wrote:
>> The joy of NPT(VMI?)/EPT is that you don't need shadow pagetables at
>> all. :)
>>   
> 
> Sure, but from a guest interface perspective they look the same.

Would you want to take advantage of NPT/EPT once you've pv'ed your mmu
interfaces?

 -- Keir



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