On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-11-01 16:30, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:39:49AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>> So SVM does not guarantee that an intercept during a task-switch can be
> >>> restarted.
> >>
> >> Not a bug but still a deficit as it makes hardware-assisted task
> >> switching practically useless, no?
> >
> > Not entirely. For hypervisors that can guarantee that there will be no
> > intercept (NPT pre-mapped, no exceptions intercepted) it will still
> > work.
>
> Yes, but that only covers the niche of simple static ones (partitioning
> hypervisors).
No, also a hypervisor that creates the nested page-page on advance falls
into this category.
Joerg
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