On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 06:54:23PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This patch caches all dirty pages logging until the used ring index
> is updated.
>
> The goal of this optimization is to fix a performance regression
> introduced when the vhost library started to use atomic operations
> to set bits in the shared dirty log map. While the fix was valid
> as previous implementation wasn't safe against concurent accesses,
Typo: concurent
> contention was induced.
>
> With this patch, during migration, we have:
> 1. Less atomic operations as only a single atomic OR operation
> per 32 or 64 (depending on CPU) pages.
> 2. Less atomic operations as during a burst, the same page will
> be marked dirty only once.
> 3. Less write memory barriers.
>
> Fixes: 897f13a1f726 ("vhost: make page logging atomic")
>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Cc: Tiwei Bie <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
Apart from the typo,
Reviewed-by: Tiwei Bie <[email protected]>
