exec: Introduce AddressSpaceDispatch.mru_section
Under heavy workloads the lookup will likely end up with the same
MemoryRegionSection from last time. Using a pointer to cache the result,
like ram_list.mru_block, significantly reduces cost of
address_space_translate.
During address space topology update, as->dispatch will be reallocated
so the pointer is invalidated automatically.
Perf reports a visible drop on the cpu usage, because phys_page_find is
not called. Before:
2.35% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] phys_page_find
0.97% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_translate_internal
0.95% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_translate
0.55% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_lookup_region
After:
0.97% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_translate_internal
0.97% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_lookup_region
0.84% qemu-system-x86_64 [.] address_space_translate
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <
1456813104[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>