Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] SVM: Add Support for Nested Paging in AMD Fam16 CPUs

Avi Kivity
2008-01-28T11:08:56Z

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".

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