linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Save two instructions in __guest

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:22:06 -0500
From:   Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        kvmarm <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Save two instructions in __guest_enter()

Hi Christoffer,

This is change may not provide the measurable performance improvement, 
but still we can
save a few cpu cycles on vCPU context switch and also improves the code 
readability.


On 08/25/2016 08:31 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Hi Shanker,
>
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 08:15:36PM -0500, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
>> We are doing an unnecessary stack push/pop operation when restoring
>> the guest registers x0-x18 in __guest_enter(). This patch saves the
>> two instructions by using x18 as a base register. No need to store
>> the vcpu context pointer in stack because it is redundant and not
>> being used anywhere, the same information is available in tpidr_el2.
> Does this have any measureable benefit?
>
> Thanks,
> -Christoffer

-- 
Shanker Donthineni
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.