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From: | Alex Bennée |
Subject: | Re: [RFC PATCH] accel/tcg: change default codegen buffer size for i386-softmmu |
Date: | Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:33:03 +0100 |
User-agent: | mu4e 1.5.13; emacs 28.0.50 |
Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes: > There are two justifications for making this change. The first is that > i386 emulation is typically for smaller machines where having a 1gb of > generated code is overkill for basic emulation. The second is the > propensity of self-modifying code (c.f. Doom/edit) utilised on i386 > systems can trigger a rapid growth in invalidated and re-translated > buffers. This is seen in bug #283. Execution is still inefficient but > at least the host memory isn't so aggressively used up. > > That said it's still really just a sticking plaster for user > convenience. ping? -- Alex Bennée
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