Re: powernv gitlab ci regression

[Cédric Le Goater]

> Just rewrote the fore-mentioned patch using TCG ops. Here's some numbers 
> running the tests on
> my local machine:
>
> - using current master:
>
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (71.00 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (69.57 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (76.04 s)
>
>
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (72.62 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (76.50 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (73.58 s)
>
>
> - after my TCG Ops rewrite to count instructions:
>
>
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (39.97 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (40.19 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: 
> PASS (41.76 s)
>
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (40.88 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (41.49 s)
>   (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: 
> PASS (42.04 s)
>
>
> Also, there's a high possibility that the code I wrote is not optimized since 
> I'm not well
> versed with TCG ops/code. I expect that after a couple of reviews from Richard 
> we might be able
> to bring down those numbers even further.

This is behaving like 6.2. We should be fine (until we add more counters :)
  
> I'll clean this up and send for review.
ok. We might have a last ppc PR in 2021.

Thanks a lot,

C.