KVM: VMX: optimize shadow VMCS copying
Because all fields can be read/written with a single vmread/vmwrite on 64-bit kernels, the switch statements in copy_vmcs12_to_shadow and copy_shadow_to_vmcs12 are unnecessary. What I did in this patch is to copy the two parts of 64-bit fields separately on 32-bit kernels, to keep all complicated #ifdef-ery in init_vmcs_shadow_fields. The disadvantage is that 64-bit fields have to be listed separately in shadow_read_only/read_write_fields, but those are few and we can validate the arrays when building the VMREAD and VMWRITE bitmaps. This saves a few hundred clock cycles per nested vmexit. However there is still a "switch" in vmcs_read_any and vmcs_write_any. So, while at it, this patch reorders the fields by type, hoping that the branch predictor appreciates it. Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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