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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH]Large Page Support for HAP

To: "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH]Large Page Support for HAP
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:42:05 +0000
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As I said, you should avoid explicitly referencing the actual superpage size to make supporting 4MB superpage easier. For the impacts to shadow paging, that’s Tim’s area. :-)

 -- Keir

On 15/11/07 17:36, "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Having to shatter the 0-2MB region for the VGA RAM hole is a shame, but I suppose there’s no way round that really.

Since tools control the page_array (size, order, etc.), this is the only way to do it. My major concern is about handing 4MB page for 32bit mode and impacts to shadow paging. Any thought?

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