As Avi pointed out, testing bit part in mark_page_dirty() was important
in the days of shadow paging, but currently EPT and NPT has already become
common and the chance of faulting a page more that once per iteration is
small. So let's remove the test bit to avoid extra access.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6dc9404..9ab1a77 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1192,9 +1192,7 @@ void mark_page_dirty(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
if (memslot && memslot->dirty_bitmap) {
unsigned long rel_gfn = gfn - memslot->base_gfn;
- /* avoid RMW */
- if (!generic_test_le_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap))
- generic___set_le_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);
+ generic___set_le_bit(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);
}
}
--
1.6.3.3
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