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Memory management for virtualization

Memory management for virtualization

Posted Apr 9, 2010 10:43 UTC (Fri) by avik (guest, #704)
In reply to: Memory management for virtualization by anton
Parent article: Memory management for virtualization

Nested paging has worse cache footprint and tlb fill latency than shadow paging. However shadow paging is a lot worse in terms of scalability and mmu operation costs, so nested paging is an overall win (by a large margin).

So, nested paging is overall much better than shadow paging (but worse in some aspects), large pages bridge the gap and make nested paging better overall.


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