Re: [kvm-devel] [announce] [patch] KVM paravirtualization for Linux

2007-01-07 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:20 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > Well, you did say it was ad-hoc. For reference, this is how I see the > hypercall API: [snip] > - Guest/host communications is by guest physical addressed, as the > virtual->physical translation is much cheaper on the guest (__pa() vs >

Re: [kvm-devel] [announce] [patch] KVM paravirtualization for Linux

2007-01-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
This is pretty cool. I've read the VT spec a number of times and never understood why they included the CR3 caching :-) I suspect that you may even be faster than Xen for context switches because of the hardware assistance here. Any chance you can run your benchmarks against Xen? You may al