[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] target/riscv: call tcg_lookup_and_goto_ptr on DISAS_TOO_MANY

[Emilio G. Cota]

Performance impact of this and the previous commit, measured with
the very-easy-to-cross-compile rv8-bench:
  https://github.com/rv8-io/rv8-bench

Host: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz

- Key:
  before: master
  after1,2,3: the 3 commits in this series (i.e. 3 is this commit)

- User-mode:

 bench      before  after1  after2  after3  final speedup
---------------------------------------------------------
 aes        1.12s   1.12s   1.10s   1.00s   1.12
 bigint     0.78s   0.78s   0.78s   0.78s   1
 dhrystone  0.96s   0.97s   0.49s   0.49s   1.9591837
 miniz      1.94s   1.94s   1.88s   1.86s   1.0430108
 norx       0.51s   0.51s   0.49s   0.48s   1.0625
 primes     0.85s   0.85s   0.84s   0.84s   1.0119048
 qsort      4.87s   4.88s   1.86s   1.86s   2.6182796
 sha512     0.76s   0.77s   0.64s   0.64s   1.1875

(after1 only applies to softmmu, so no surprises here)

- Full-system (fedora):

 bench      before  after1  after2  after3  final speedup
---------------------------------------------------------
 aes        2.68s   2.54s   2.60s   2.34s   1.1452991
 bigint     1.61s   1.56s   1.55s   1.64s   0.98170732
 dhrystone  1.78s   1.67s   1.25s   1.24s   1.4354839
 miniz      3.53s   3.35s   3.28s   3.35s   1.0537313
 norx       1.13s   1.09s   1.07s   1.06s   1.0660377
 primes     15.37s  15.41s  15.20s  15.37s  1
 qsort      7.20s   6.71s   3.85s   3.96s   1.8181818
 sha512     1.07s   1.04s   0.90s   0.90s   1.1888889

SoftMMU slows things down, so the numbers are less sensitive.
Cross-page jumps improve things a little bit, though.

Note that I'm not showing here averages, just results from a
single run, so with primes there isn't much to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <address@hidden>
---
 target/riscv/translate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/riscv/translate.c b/target/riscv/translate.c
index 66a80ca772..98e0311606 100644
--- a/target/riscv/translate.c
+++ b/target/riscv/translate.c
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ static void riscv_tr_tb_stop(DisasContextBase *dcbase, 
CPUState *cpu)
         if (ctx->base.singlestep_enabled) {
             gen_exception_debug();
         } else {
-            tcg_gen_exit_tb(NULL, 0);
+            tcg_gen_lookup_and_goto_ptr();
         }
         break;
     case DISAS_NORETURN:
-- 
2.17.1