linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/25] KVM: emulate: extend memory access optimization to stores

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Message-ID: <53A2CB92.3040601@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:37:54 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gleb@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] KVM: emulate: extend memory access optimization
 to stores

Il 09/06/2014 20:40, Bandan Das ha scritto:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> writes:
>
>> > Even on a store the optimization saves about 50 clock cycles,
>> > mostly because the jump in write_memory_operand becomes much more
>> > predictable.
>> >
>> > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> Isn't the reviewed-by automatically implied ? :)
>

This patch breaks x86/vmx.flat, but apart from this the series passes 
Autotest and kvm-unit-tests.  I'm going to leave the memory access 
optimization out, and push the rest to kvm/queue.

Paolo
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