From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>,
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Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation II
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:38:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222338.44919.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4421D379.3090405@vmware.com>
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:45, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I propose an entirely different approach - use segmentation.
That would require a lot of changes to save/restore the segmentation
register at kernel entry/exit since there is no swapgs on i386.
And will be likely slower there too and also even slow down the
VMI-kernel-no-hypervisor.
Still might be the best option.
How did that rumoured Xenolinux-over-VMI implementation solve that problem?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-22 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200603131759.k2DHxeep005627@zach-dev.vmware.com>
[not found] ` <20060313224902.GD12807@sorel.sous-sol.org>
2006-03-14 0:00 ` [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 21:27 ` Chris Wright
[not found] ` <441743BD.1070108@vmware.com>
2006-03-15 2:57 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 5:44 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 22:56 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-16 1:16 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-16 3:40 ` Eli Collins
2006-03-14 4:11 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-22 20:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 21:34 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 21:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 21:57 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-23 0:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 21:39 ` [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation II Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 22:43 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-22 22:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 22:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-22 23:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 23:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 22:04 ` [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 21:58 ` Andi Kleen
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