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Peter Xu authored
Add a counter field into pte_list_desc, so as to simplify the add/remove/loop logic. E.g., we don't need to loop over the array any more for most reasons. This will make more sense after we've switched the array size to be larger otherwise the counter will be a waste. Initially I wanted to store a tail pointer at the head of the array list so we don't need to traverse the list at least for pushing new ones (if without the counter we traverse both the list and the array). However that'll need slightly more change without a huge lot benefit, e.g., after we grow entry numbers per array the list traversing is not so expensive. So let's be simple but still try to get as much benefit as we can with just these extra few lines of changes (not to mention the code looks easier too without looping over arrays). I used the same a test case to fork 500 child and recycle them ("./rmap_fork 500" [1]), this patch further speeds up the total fork time of about 4%, which is a total of 33% of vanilla kernel: Vanilla: 473.90 (+-5.93%) 3->15 slots: 366.10 (+-4.94%) Add counter: 351.00 (+-3.70%) [1] https://github.com/xzpeter/clibs/commit/825436f825453de2ea5aaee4bdb1c92281efe5b3Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210730220602.26327-1-peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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