VMCS12 fields that are not handled through shadow VMCS are rarely
written, and thus they are also almost constant in the vmcs02. We can
thus optimize prepare_vmcs02 by skipping all the work for non-shadowed
fields in the common case.
This patch introduces the (pretty simple) tracking infrastructure; the
next patches will move work to prepare_vmcs02_full and save a few hundred
clock cycles per VMRESUME on a Haswell Xeon E5 system:
before after
cpuid 14159 13869
vmcall 15290 14951
inl_from_kernel 17703 17447
outl_to_kernel 16011 14692
self_ipi_sti_nop 16763 15825
self_ipi_tpr_sti_nop 17341 15935
wr_tsc_adjust_msr 14510 14264
rd_tsc_adjust_msr 15018 14311
mmio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-mem 16381 14947
mmio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-mem 18620 17858
portio-wildcard-eventfd:pci-io 15121 14769
portio-datamatch-eventfd:pci-io 15761 14831
(average savings 748, stdev 460).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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