On 02/22/2011 10:32 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/22/2011 10:16 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote: >> Cache guest page number to guest frame number to avoid walk guest page table >> frequently, the 'vtlb' idea is from Xen. >> >> Note: >> we can't use vtlb in ept guests since the guest tlb invalid operation is not >> intercept(reload CR3, invlpg), also can't used in L2 nnpt guest for the same >> reason, but we can used it to cache L1's npt page table. >> > > I'm not so hot about introducing a new mechanism strictly for older hosts... > EPT exists in three generations of Intel processors now (Sandy Bridge, > Westmere, and Nehalem), and NPT is significantly older. >
Um...so, do we should stop the new features for softmmu, only bug fix is welcome? :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
