On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 02:59:07PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Avoid bounce buffers when QEMUIOVector elements are within previously
registered bdrv_register_buf() buffers.
The idea is that emulated storage controllers will register guest RAM
using bdrv_register_buf() and set the BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF on I/O
requests. Therefore no blkio_map_mem_region() calls are necessary in the
performance-critical I/O code path.
This optimization doesn't apply if the I/O buffer is internally
allocated by QEMU (e.g. qcow2 metadata). There we still take the slow
path because BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF is not set.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
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block/blkio.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 180 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
