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[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] save/restore: Permute saved memory with 2MB chunk size.



# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1205869003 0
# Node ID c40a5ae3e18b4b1ab1debaf8144ff17ed6c6e095
# Parent  df89656a4b949e99c59d684f291212c8e29c9b19
save/restore: Permute saved memory with 2MB chunk size.

The memory permutation cause a slow down in case of a save/restore
(bug 1143). It works better when the mixing is done with 2MB chunks.

Signed-off-by: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxc/xc_domain_save.c |   34 +++++++++++-----------------------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff -r df89656a4b94 -r c40a5ae3e18b tools/libxc/xc_domain_save.c
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_save.c      Tue Mar 18 19:28:09 2008 +0000
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_save.c      Tue Mar 18 19:36:43 2008 +0000
@@ -125,34 +125,22 @@ static inline int count_bits ( int nr, v
     return count;
 }
 
-static inline int permute( int i, int nr, int order_nr  )
+static inline int permute(unsigned long i, unsigned long order_nr)
 {
     /* Need a simple permutation function so that we scan pages in a
        pseudo random order, enabling us to get a better estimate of
        the domain's page dirtying rate as we go (there are often
        contiguous ranges of pfns that have similar behaviour, and we
        want to mix them up. */
-
-    /* e.g. nr->oder 15->4 16->4 17->5 */
-    /* 512MB domain, 128k pages, order 17 */
-
-    /*
-      QPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
-             QPONMLKJIH
-      GFEDCBA
-     */
-
-    /*
-      QPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
-                  EDCBA
-             QPONM
-      LKJIHGF
-      */
-
-    do { i = ((i>>(order_nr-10)) | ( i<<10 ) ) & ((1<<order_nr)-1); }
-    while ( i >= nr ); /* this won't ever loop if nr is a power of 2 */
-
-    return i;
+  
+  unsigned char keep = 9; /* chunk of 2 MB */
+  unsigned char shift_low = (order_nr - keep) / 2 + ((order_nr - keep) / 2) % 
2;
+  unsigned char shift_high = order_nr - keep - shift_low;
+
+  unsigned long high = (i >> (keep + shift_low));
+  unsigned long low = (i >> keep) & ((1 << shift_low) - 1);
+
+  return (i & ((1 << keep) - 1)) | (low << (shift_high + keep)) | (high << 
keep);
 }
 
 static uint64_t tv_to_us(struct timeval *new)
@@ -1126,7 +1114,7 @@ int xc_domain_save(int xc_handle, int io
                    (batch < MAX_BATCH_SIZE) && (N < p2m_size);
                    N++ )
             {
-                int n = permute(N, p2m_size, order_nr);
+                int n = permute(N, order_nr);
 
                 if ( debug )
                 {

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