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Cpu cycle distribution

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Impact of multi-dimensional paging

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In the paper …

� Detailed evaluation of network-intensive workloads

� Detailed micro-benchmarking, making it clear that

handling an exit in a guest is very expensive

compared to single-level guest exit

� Discussion on architectural overhead and

architecture support for nested virtualization

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