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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patches] Xen 1GB Page Table Support
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:25:51 +0000
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Gianluca Guida wrote:
> Changing the p2m of course won't help in the shadow pagetables case. :/
>   
No, but it seems to me that 1G p2m entries can't hurt performance for 
shadows either, which is the question Dan was raising.

It might be nice to have some quick "sanity check" benchmarks, just to 
make sure that adding the 1G pages won't hurt performance for the normal 
case...

 -George