Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Speed up slot_rmap_walk_next for sparsely populated rmaps

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 4:53 PM David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 4:31 PM Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Avoid calling handlers on empty rmap entries and skip to the next non
> > empty rmap entry.
> >
> > Empty rmap entries are noop in handlers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Change-Id: I8abf0f4d82a2aae4c5d58b80bcc17ffc30785ffc
>
> nit: Omit Change-Id tags from upstream commits.

Thanks for catching it.

>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 9 ++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > index 51671cb34fb6..f296340803ba 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > @@ -1499,11 +1499,14 @@ static bool slot_rmap_walk_okay(struct slot_rmap_walk_iterator *iterator)
> >         return !!iterator->rmap;
> >  }
> >
> > -static void slot_rmap_walk_next(struct slot_rmap_walk_iterator *iterator)
> > +static noinline void
>
> What is the reason to add noinline?

My understanding is that since this method is called from
__always_inline methods, noinline will avoid gcc inlining the
slot_rmap_walk_next in those functions and generate smaller code.



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