Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/13] KVM: kvm data structures | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:39:31 +0200 |
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On Friday 27 October 2006 07:53, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Assuming that you move to the host-user == guest-real memory > > model, will this data structure still be needed? It would > > be really nice if a guest could simply consist of a number > > of vcpu structures that happen to be used from threads in the > > same process address space, but I find it hard to tell if > > that is realistic. > > > > We'd still need the shadow page table data structures (or the nested > page tables pgd).
One hack around this would be to have the shadow page tables hang off the mm_context_t, automatically allocated when a task first calls runs kvm. Don't know if that's worthwhile doing, considering that it's rather ugly.
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