[RFC PATCH v4 1/5] MRU ram list

[Umesh Deshpande <udeshpan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This patch creates a new list of RAM blocks in MRU order. So that separate
locking rules can be applied to the regular RAM block list and the MRU list.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 cpu-all.h |    2 ++
 exec.c    |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cpu-all.h b/cpu-all.h
index e839100..6b217a2 100644
--- a/cpu-all.h
+++ b/cpu-all.h
@@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ typedef struct RAMBlock {
     uint32_t flags;
     char idstr[256];
     QLIST_ENTRY(RAMBlock) next;
+    QLIST_ENTRY(RAMBlock) next_mru;
 #if defined(__linux__) && !defined(TARGET_S390X)
     int fd;
 #endif
@@ -933,6 +934,7 @@ typedef struct RAMBlock {
 typedef struct RAMList {
     uint8_t *phys_dirty;
     QLIST_HEAD(ram, RAMBlock) blocks;
+    QLIST_HEAD(, RAMBlock) blocks_mru;
 } RAMList;
 extern RAMList ram_list;
 
diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 0e2ce57..c5c247c 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ static uint8_t *code_gen_ptr;
 int phys_ram_fd;
 static int in_migration;
 
-RAMList ram_list = { .blocks = QLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(ram_list) };
+RAMList ram_list = {
+    .blocks = QLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(ram_list),
+    .blocks_mru = QLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(ram_list.blocks_mru)
+};
+
 #endif
 
 CPUState *first_cpu;
@@ -2973,6 +2977,7 @@ ram_addr_t qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr(DeviceState *dev, const char *name,
     new_block->length = size;
 
     QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&ram_list.blocks, new_block, next);
+    QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&ram_list.blocks_mru, new_block, next_mru);
 
     ram_list.phys_dirty = qemu_realloc(ram_list.phys_dirty,
                                        last_ram_offset() >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS);
@@ -2997,6 +3002,7 @@ void qemu_ram_free_from_ptr(ram_addr_t addr)
     QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
         if (addr == block->offset) {
             QLIST_REMOVE(block, next);
+            QLIST_REMOVE(block, next_mru);
             qemu_free(block);
             return;
         }
@@ -3010,6 +3016,7 @@ void qemu_ram_free(ram_addr_t addr)
     QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
         if (addr == block->offset) {
             QLIST_REMOVE(block, next);
+            QLIST_REMOVE(block, next_mru);
             if (block->flags & RAM_PREALLOC_MASK) {
                 ;
             } else if (mem_path) {
@@ -3113,12 +3120,12 @@ void *qemu_get_ram_ptr(ram_addr_t addr)
 {
     RAMBlock *block;
 
-    QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
+    QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks_mru, next_mru) {
         if (addr - block->offset < block->length) {
             /* Move this entry to to start of the list.  */
             if (block != QLIST_FIRST(&ram_list.blocks)) {
-                QLIST_REMOVE(block, next);
-                QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&ram_list.blocks, block, next);
+                QLIST_REMOVE(block, next_mru);
+                QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&ram_list.blocks_mru, block, next_mru);
             }
             if (xen_mapcache_enabled()) {
                 /* We need to check if the requested address is in the RAM
@@ -3211,7 +3218,7 @@ int qemu_ram_addr_from_host(void *ptr, ram_addr_t *ram_addr)
         return 0;
     }
 
-    QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
+    QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks_mru, next_mru) {
         /* This case append when the block is not mapped. */
         if (block->host == NULL) {
             continue;
-- 
1.7.4.1

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