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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:30:49 +0000
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On 03/02/16 09:18, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>>> In other words - the NVDIMM resource does not provide any resource
>>> isolation. However this may not be any different than what we had
>>> nowadays with CPU caches.
>>>
>> Does Xen have any mechanism to isolate multiple guests' operations on
>> CPU caches?
> No.

PSR Cache Allocation is supported in Xen 4.6 on supporting hardware, so
the administrator can partition guests if necessary.

~Andrew