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Date:   Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:55:32 -0400
From:   Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: const-ify all relevant uses of struct
 kvm_memory_slot
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On Fri, Jul 30 2021 at 04:19:21 PM -0400, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> 
wrote:
> separate patch.  At the meantime I also don't understand why memcpy() 
> here,
> which seems to be even slower..

Alright, I've now had a chance to compare the object code generated 
before
my patch is applied, with what is generated after it is applied and the
same object code is generated for arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c in both cases 
(at
least when compiling with clang, however I suspect other optimizing
compilers would behave similarly).