RE: [PATCH 3/3] kvmppc/e500: fix tlbcfg emulation

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Graf [mailto:agraf@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:47 PM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; avi@xxxxxxxxxx; hollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kvmppc/e500: fix tlbcfg emulation
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> On 20.01.2010, at 09:03, Liu Yu wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c |    4 ++--
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c 
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
> > index 95f8ec8..97337dd 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c
> > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr(struct 
> kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int sprn, int rt)
> > 
> > 	case SPRN_TLB0CFG:
> > 	{
> > -		ulong tmp = SPRN_TLB0CFG;
> > +		ulong tmp = mfspr(SPRN_TLB0CFG);
> 
> Does this SPR value change? I hope not :-). If not, better 
> read it once on init and then use it from there.
> 

Out of curiousity. Does read it once in order to get better performance?
If yes, I think read from register is faster than read from mem.

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