linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/25] powerpc/8xx: Save r3 all the time in DTLB miss handler

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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:07:17 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
CC:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/25] powerpc/8xx: Save r3 all the time in DTLB miss
 handler

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:29PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> We are spending between 40 and 160 cycles with a mean of 65 cycles in
> the TLB handling routines (measured with mftbl) so make it more
> simple althought it adds one instruction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>

Does this just make it simpler or does it make it faster?  What is the
performance impact?  Is the performance impact seen with or without
CONFIG_8xx_CPU6 enabled?  Without it, it looks like you're adding an
mtspr/mfspr combo in order to replace one mfspr.

-Scott
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