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Re: [Xen-devel] Regarding page table management changes from Xen v1 to Xen v2 (and v3)




On 26 Apr 2006, at 18:40, Himanshu Raj wrote:

Although, same results can be obtained by doing the v1.2 way, i.e. making one
hypercall requesting these 1024 changes, no?

-Himanshu

You have to marshal/unmarshal the batched arguments, and insert flushes all over the place to ensure the requests get flushed before Linux next tries to read any of the ptes. So the new method is fewer changes to the guest and no slower for reasonable-sized batches.

 -- Keir


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