No, neither guest support nor host exploitation is included in current
versions of z/VM.

- Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:52 -0400, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]>
 wrote:

>Can guests use it under z/VM?
>
>
>On 10/30/09 3:33 PM, "Alan Altmark" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> No, you cannot persuade z/VM to use enhanced DAT ("EDAT").
>>
>> Another religious war in the offing.   One of the ways EDAT improves
>> performance is by eliminating page tables (leaving more room in the ca
che
>> for Good Things) and speeding up the address translation process.  All

>> "pages" are 1MB (the size of a segment).  When paging, that means you 
have
>> to swap 256 4K pages at once, and they have to be contiguous in real
>> memory.  So while you get some good benefits, memory fragmentation can

>> create significant pain.

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