Re: [benchmark] 1% performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native kernels

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Ingo pointed to a way which doesn't negatively impact the
> performance of the Xen kernel and reduces the overhead (dynamic
> patching)

The pvops code is already fully dynamically patched, which replaces all 
the indirect calls with either direct calls, inline instructions or 
nops.  It has been this way from the initial implementation.

More recently I changed the calling convention on some of the most 
common critical-path ops to reduce the register pressure caused by the 
function call clobbers; you just don't need a pile of registers to 
disable interrupts.

Ingo knows all this, so I'm not sure what further patching he's 
suggesting.  I don't see any more likely candidates, but I'm open to 
suggestions.

    J