KVM: MMU: Improve iteration through sptes from rmap
Iteration using rmap_next(), the actual body is pte_list_next(), is inefficient: every time we call it we start from checking whether rmap holds a single spte or points to a descriptor which links more sptes. In the case of shadow paging, this quadratic total iteration cost is a problem. Even for two dimensional paging, with EPT/NPT on, in which we almost always have a single mapping, the extra checks at the end of the iteration should be eliminated. This patch fixes this by introducing rmap_iterator which keeps the iteration context for the next search. Furthermore the implementation of rmap_next() is splitted into two functions, rmap_get_first() and rmap_get_next(), to avoid repeatedly checking whether the rmap being iterated on has only one spte. Although there seemed to be only a slight change for EPT/NPT, the actual improvement was significant: we observed that GET_DIRTY_LOG for 1GB dirty memory became 15% faster than before. This is probably because the new code is easy to make branch predictions. Note: we just remove pte_list_next() because we can think of parent_ptes as a reverse mapping. Signed-off-by: NTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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