From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] SVM: Add Support for Nested Paging in AMD Fam16 CPUs Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:08:46 +0200 Message-ID: <479DB7BE.4040106@qumranet.com> References: <1201294393-22613-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <479C4763.1080104@qumranet.com> <479D4A0C.5080208@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Return-path: In-Reply-To: <479D4A0C.5080208-TSDbQ3PG+2Y@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Avi Kivity wrote: > >> I find it non-descriptive, and it reminds me of another hypervisor. >> I suggest 'tlp' for two-level paging. >> > > That has its own ambiguity; without other context it reads like > "two-level pagetable". Anyway, using the same term for the same thing > is not a bad idea. > > What annoys me about hap and hvm is that it comes from a paravirtualization viewpoint, where pv is the default model, and hardware extensions are an optional addition. With kvm it's the other way round: the base model is full virtualization, and paravirtualization is an optional add-on. I'd rather call traditional shadow paging "software-assisted paging". -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/