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authorMarcus Hähnel <marcus.haehnel@kernkonzept.com>2021-10-20 14:55:04 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-11-02 15:57:27 +0100
commit48972f8cad24eb4462c97ea68003e2dd35be0444 (patch)
tree6381678103fc9d67e5247006b31c218828a39eda /pc-bios/multiboot_dma.bin
parentf014c974595a1e3482c6afb57557a6e479b80328 (diff)
optionrom: add a DMA-enabled multiboot ROM
Add a new option rom for the multiboot loader, using DMA transfers to copy data instead of "rep insb". This significantly lowers QEMU's startup latency by a factor of about 40, for example, going from 30sec to 0.8sec when loading modules of 120MB in size. Signed-off-by: Marcus Hähnel <marcus.haehnel@kernkonzept.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@l4re.org> [Modified to keep the non-DMA code depending on #ifdef USE_FW_CFG_DMA; do not write below stack. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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