Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: memslots lookup optimization

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/12/2014 18:29, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Series speed-ups GFN to memslot lookup time by:
>  * introducing LRU cache, which improves looukup time for
>    same slot workload (typically boot time of Windows and Linux guest)
>  * switching to binary search for GFN to memslot lookup,
>    improving lookup time with large amount of memory slots
> 
> Igor Mammedov (5):
>   kvm: update_memslots: drop not needed check for the same number of
>     pages
>   kvm: update_memslots: drop not needed check for the same slot
>   kvm: search_memslots: add simple LRU memslot caching
>   kvm: change memslot sorting rule from size to GFN
>   kvm: optimize GFN to memslot lookup with large slots amount
> 
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 

Applied patches 1-3 for now, I'm not in the mood for proving that the
binary search is correct. :)

Paolo
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