KVM: Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface

Keep track of memslots changes by keeping generation number in memslots
structure. Provide kvm_write_guest_cached() function that skips
gfn_to_hva() translation if memslots was not changed since previous
invocation.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Gleb Natapov
2010-10-18 15:22:23 +02:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent 56028d0861
commit 49c7754ce5
4 changed files with 78 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -3190,6 +3190,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
}
memcpy(slots, kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
slots->memslots[log->slot].dirty_bitmap = dirty_bitmap;
slots->generation++;
old_slots = kvm->memslots;
rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->memslots, slots);