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I guess I am confused was to why there is both an ASID and PCID for x86 then?
by bogomipz 9y ago
I guess I am confused was to why there is both an ASID and PCID for x86 then?
- monocasa 9y agoThey're Intel and AMD extensions respectively. They're tacked onto the virtualization extensions, and since every implementor (Xen, KVM, etc.) has just wrote separate backends for VT and SVM anyway, Intel and AMD haven't found the need to negotiate cross licensing.
- bogomipz 9y agoThank you this makes sense. Cheers