[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables

Jeremy Fitzhardinge jeremy at goop.org
Thu Sep 6 04:28:47 PDT 2007


Avi Kivity wrote:
> It is, but the hooks are in much the same places.  It could be argued
> that you'd embed pte notifiers in paravirt_ops for a host kernel, but
> that's not doable because pte notifiers use higher-level data
> strutures (like vmas).

Also, I wouldn't like to preclude the possibility of having a kernel
that's both a guest and a host (ie, nested vmms).

    J



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