memory: transaction API

Allow changes to the memory hierarchy to be accumulated and
made visible all at once.  This reduces computational effort,
especially when an accelerator (e.g. kvm) is involved.

Useful when a single register update causes multiple changes
to an address space.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
index 7a5670e..5c6e63d 100644
--- a/memory.c
+++ b/memory.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 #include "kvm.h"
 #include <assert.h>
 
+unsigned memory_region_transaction_depth = 0;
+
 typedef struct AddrRange AddrRange;
 
 struct AddrRange {
@@ -626,6 +628,10 @@ static void address_space_update_topology(AddressSpace *as)
 
 static void memory_region_update_topology(void)
 {
+    if (memory_region_transaction_depth) {
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (address_space_memory.root) {
         address_space_update_topology(&address_space_memory);
     }
@@ -634,6 +640,18 @@ static void memory_region_update_topology(void)
     }
 }
 
+void memory_region_transaction_begin(void)
+{
+    ++memory_region_transaction_depth;
+}
+
+void memory_region_transaction_commit(void)
+{
+    assert(memory_region_transaction_depth);
+    --memory_region_transaction_depth;
+    memory_region_update_topology();
+}
+
 void memory_region_init(MemoryRegion *mr,
                         const char *name,
                         uint64_t size)