What is the background of not allowing this option under Xen? Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
It would probably have unpleasant performance, but that''s only conjecture and I don''t think there''s any correctness reason not to allow that option these days. Give it a try. ;-) -- Keir On 4/1/07 14:07, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:> What is the background of not allowing this option under Xen? > > Thanks, Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Jan Beulich wrote:> What is the background of not allowing this option under Xen?The hypervisor interfaces to mark a certain page a page table pass a kernel virtual address as one of the arguments. I guess it might work with the page in question no longer having the address briefly after the call, but I''m not certain... -- All Rights Reversed _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel