Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Improve TCG optimizer

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:34:10PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 September 2012 16:00, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> > This patch series improves the TCG optimizer, based on patterns found
> > while executing various guest. The brcond ad setcond constant folding
> > are useful especially useful when they are used to avoid some argument
> > values (e.g. division by 0), and thus can be optimized when this argument
> > is a constant.
> >
> > This bring around 0.5% improvement on openssl like benchmarks.
> 
> This didn't overall seem to make much difference on my popular
> embedded benchmark setup. However I am rapidly losing confidence
> in the benchmark since from run to run individual tests can have
> results which vary by a factor of two, which is such high
> variation it's almost impossible to say whether a change has
> had an overall +1% or -1% effect. Hohum.
> 

I am usually doing the tests by setting the CPU performance to
performance and by pinning QEMU to a given CPU, on a machine without or
with very few other tasks. This improve the stability of the results.

Unfortunately it's not easy to do that on a laptop, especially when
running on battery.

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