Re: [Xen-devel] Xen at scale

[Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> and where does the builder put the PTD?  and what's the physical memory
> layout?

For BSD both are irrelevant - the PTD is passed in as an argument via a
register. Only Linux relies on physical contiguity for the PTOV trick.
BSD does a table lookup in the mapped page tables - it has no physical
contiguity requirements.

>
> > As for DOM0, different guests can have their own setup routines inside
> Xen.
>
> I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this.

That is a starting point.


                        -Kip


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