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Message-Id: <11838956893243-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:54:36 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To: kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Subject: [PATCH 07/20] KVM: Avoid useless memory write when possible
From: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
When writing to normal memory and the memory area is unchanged the write
can be safely skipped, avoiding the costly kvm_mmu_pte_write.
Signed-Off-By: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7826f16..5603000 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1170,8 +1170,10 @@ static int emulator_write_phys(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
return 0;
mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT);
virt = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
- kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, virt + offset, val, bytes);
- memcpy(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes);
+ if (memcmp(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes)) {
+ kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, virt + offset, val, bytes);
+ memcpy(virt + offset_in_page(gpa), val, bytes);
+ }
kunmap_atomic(virt, KM_USER0);
return 1;
}
--
1.5.2.2
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