From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
To: Sukanto Ghosh <sukanto@cse.iitb.ac.in>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm_mmu doubts
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:13:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4868EA10.6000607@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2452.10.9.1.37.1214831194.squirrel@www.cse.iitb.ac.in>
Sukanto Ghosh wrote:
> What do these refer to ?
> i) kvm_rmap_desc
> ii) rmap_pde
> iii) kvm_mmu_page-> spt ??? ( i thought kvm_mmu_page itself refers to page
> of shadow PT, then what does spt points to ? )
I liked Avis presentation about the kvm softmmu at the developer forum
2007. I felt like I understood what's going on after that, but I've
forgotten at least 75% since. Maybe this helps?
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KvmForum2007?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=shadowy-depths-of-the-kvm-mmu.pdf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-30 13:06 kvm_mmu doubts Sukanto Ghosh
2008-06-30 13:42 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-30 17:10 ` Sukanto Ghosh
2008-06-30 19:59 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-01 5:20 ` Sukanto Ghosh
2008-07-05 10:58 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-30 14:13 ` Carsten Otte [this message]
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