Re: [patch] SMP alternatives

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Well, with VTX or Pacifica virtualization is in ring 3.  The fact that 
>
> Not it's not. The whole point is that there is no "ring compression" 
> The guest has all its normal rings, just the hypervisor has additional
> "negative" rings.

Uhm... maybe we think of it differently, but typically I consider the 
host rings (which is what I talked about above) as orthogonal to the 
guest ring.  To the host, the guest is just a process in ring 3.

	-hpa
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