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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2013-06-04 14:52:35 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2013-07-03 10:38:20 +0200
commit40509f7f52672fe41c2cce895e187352fc09f53a (patch)
treee031437f9c3136e81c1656f613162aecc66e9c2d
parent0fbc20740342713f282b118b4a446c4c43df3f4a (diff)
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kvm: skip system call when msi route is unchanged
Some guests do a large number of mask/unmask
calls which currently trigger expensive route update
system calls.
Detect that route in unchanged and skip the system call.

Reported-by: "Zhanghaoyu (A)" <haoyu.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--kvm-all.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
index 745b5017a1..3ee0ac7e7b 100644
--- a/kvm-all.c
+++ b/kvm-all.c
@@ -1034,6 +1034,10 @@ static int kvm_update_routing_entry(KVMState *s,
             continue;
         }
 
+        if(!memcmp(entry, new_entry, sizeof *entry)) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
         *entry = *new_entry;
 
         kvm_irqchip_commit_routes(s);