Re: [PATCH 0/6 v4] KVM support for 1GB pages

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/07/2009 07:52 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > I would really like to have shadow 1GB work, or at least gain some
> > understanding of why it doesn't.
> >
> > Can you detail the changes compared to the previous round?
> >      
>
> Until now I addressed the review comments from the previous round. The
> biggest change is patch #4 which was completly rewritten.
> I understand that it would be nicer to have shadow paging working too.
> But since most users will use this feature only on processors with
> nested paging (only processors with nested paging support gbpages) I
> don't think it should be a show-stopper. YMMV.
>    

Right.  I don't think 1GB+shadow is useful in its own right.  It's not a 
barrier for merging (but still very desirable).  I do want more 
information on how it fails though.

> Anyway, I will further try to get shadow paging support running and
> stable.
>    

Great, thanks.

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