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From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] turn off writable page tables
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:19:28 -0500
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Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> Andrew Theurer wrote:
>
>>
>> These are all within the noise level (some slightly better, some 
>> slightly worse for emulate).  There really isn't much of difference 
>> here.  I'd like to propose turning on the emulate path all the time 
>> in xen.
>> -Andrew Theurer
>>
>> Applies to c/s 10729
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
>
> Andrew, is this something for 3.0.3/Fedora6/RHEL5 consideration,
> or post-3.0.3?
>
>
I think it could go either way.  There should be no "risk" using emulate 
over writable PT when it comes to stability, etc.

-Andrew