Re: [PATCH 3/5] memory: Flush coalesced MMIO on mapping and state changes

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 06/25/2012 01:26 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-06-25 12:15, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-25 10:57, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> The repetitiveness of this code suggests a different way of doing this:
>>> make every API call be its own subtransaction and perform the flush in
>>> memory_region_begin_transaction() (maybe that's the answer to my
>>> question above).
>> 
>> So you want me to wrap the core of those services in
>> begin/commit_transaction instead? Just to be sure I got the idea.
> 
> What we would lose this way (transaction_commit) is the ability to skip
> updates on !mr->enabled.

We could have an internal memory_region_begin_transaction_mr() which
checks mr->enabled and notes it if its clear (but anything else would
have to undo this).  I don't think it's worth it, let's lose the
optimization and see if it shows up anywhere.

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