By shuffling a few instructions around we can execute more memory loads in parallel, giving us a small performance boost. With this patch and a simple priviledged SPR access loop guest, I get a speed bump from 2013052 to 2035607 exits per second. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S | 13 +++++++------ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S index 64f9018..f34a070 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S @@ -128,24 +128,25 @@ no_dcbz32_on: /* First clear RI in our current MSR value */ li r0, MSR_RI andc r6, r6, r0 - MTMSR_EERI(r6) - mtsrr0 r9 - mtsrr1 r4 PPC_LL r0, SVCPU_R0(r3) PPC_LL r1, SVCPU_R1(r3) PPC_LL r2, SVCPU_R2(r3) - PPC_LL r4, SVCPU_R4(r3) PPC_LL r5, SVCPU_R5(r3) - PPC_LL r6, SVCPU_R6(r3) PPC_LL r7, SVCPU_R7(r3) PPC_LL r8, SVCPU_R8(r3) - PPC_LL r9, SVCPU_R9(r3) PPC_LL r10, SVCPU_R10(r3) PPC_LL r11, SVCPU_R11(r3) PPC_LL r12, SVCPU_R12(r3) PPC_LL r13, SVCPU_R13(r3) + MTMSR_EERI(r6) + mtsrr0 r9 + mtsrr1 r4 + + PPC_LL r4, SVCPU_R4(r3) + PPC_LL r6, SVCPU_R6(r3) + PPC_LL r9, SVCPU_R9(r3) PPC_LL r3, (SVCPU_R3)(r3) RFI -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
