KVM: x86: avoid unnecessary rmap walks when creating/moving slots
On large memory guests it has been observed that creating a memslot for a very large range can take noticeable amount of time. Investigation showed that the time is spent walking the rmaps to update existing sptes to remove write access or set/clear dirty bits to support dirty logging. These rmap walks are unnecessary when creating or moving a memslot. A newly created memslot will not have any existing mappings, and the existing mappings of a moved memslot will have been invalidated and flushed. Any mappings established once the new/moved memslot becomes visible will be set using the properties of the new slot. Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com> Message-Id: <1591128450-11977-3-git-send-email-anthony.yznaga@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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