Re: [Qemu-devel] memory: memory_region_transaction_commit() slow

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/06/2014 19:53, Etienne Martineau ha scritto:
> It seems to me that there is a scale issue O(n) in 
> memory_region_transaction_commit().
>
> Basically the time it takes to rebuild the memory view during device assignment
> pci_bridge_update_mappings() increase linearly with respect to the number of
> device already assigned to the guest.

That's correct, unfortunately.  It can be fixed, it's not hard but also 
not trivial.

Basically you can detect address spaces whose memory region is an alias 
of an address space's root memory region.  You can then reuse that 
address space's FlatView instead of building another one.

Paolo