Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/16] TCG indirect registers

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 10:23 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is an attempt to improve performance of target-sparc
>>> by exposing the windowed registers as TCG globals, and all
>>> the optimization that we can do there.
>>>
>>> This is done via allowing tcg_global_mem_new to be used
>>> with any base pointer, not just off of a fixed register.
>>> Thus the sparc windowed registers are globals off cpu_regwptr.
>>
>> Nice and simple.
>>
>> Would it be possible to eliminate regwptr and perform the calculation
>> of the effective register set during compile time? We could get rid of
>> register shuffling (memcpy32) and register access would be much
>> simpler. The downside would be that code which is called from
>> different register window level would need to be recompiled.
>
> An interesting idea.  Yes, it would be possible to grab some bits
> from TB->flags and encode the register window setting.  I suppose
> it all depends on how much overhead there is from the recompilation
> as opposed to the indirection + memcpys.

Last time I looked into profiler with perl under Debian/sparc64 guest
there was a very small overhead from memcpy32 (less than 1%).
With a newer gcc it could be even less: I couldn't persuade my
gcc (4.4.7) to use sse instructions for memcpy32.

Can't find my profiling results right now, but they were quite close to
Aurelien's ones[1]: tcg_optimize took nearly the same amount of time as
executing the translated code.

Artyom

1. http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg171104.html

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