On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:33:55 +0300
Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > =============================
> > perf top -t ${QEMU_TID}
> > =============================
> > 51.52% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] memory_region_get_dirty
> > 16.73% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] ram_save_remaining
> >
>
> memory_region_get_dirty() is called from ram_save_remaining(). Looks
> like quadratic behaviour here: we send a few pages in
> ram_save_remaining(), then walk the entire dirty bitmap to calculate
> expected_time().
>
> We should probably calculate expected_time once per iteration.
There seems to be many unnecessary/repeated calculations.
Not restricted to this expected_time one.
Takuya
