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On 04/06/2010 09:10 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I don't really agree with how virtualization problem is characterised.
> Xen's way of doing memory virtualization maps directly to normal
> hardware page tables so there doesn't seem like a fundamental
> requirement for more memory accesses.

Xen also uses nested paging whereever possible, because shadow
page tables are even slower than nested page tables.

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