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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Test if on newer xen all SSE2 and SSE3 instructions
 are effectively working
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:32:29 +0000
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On 21/11/13 15:22, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 21/11/13 15:12, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to test if on newer xen all SSE2 and SSE3 instructions are
>>> effectively working.
>>> I tried this simple program to test SSE2:
>>> http://forum.nasm.us/index.php?topic=1605.0
>>> But probably use only instructions with short operand because SSE2 on this
>>> program is working also on old xen 4.0 where Jan Beulich patches to support
>>> long operands are missing.
>>> Are there any minimal program to test if SSE instructions with MMIO operands
>>>> 8 byte are working?
>> I don't see the code there doing MMIO -- it's just doing operations on
>> normal RAM, which is not emulated by Xen at all, but executed natively
>> by the processor.
>>
>> What you need is a program that will do this to an MMIO region -- that
>> will be a much trickier thing to set up, I think.
>>
>>   -George
> The problem with SSE is only when the guest performs an SSE (or larger)
> operation on a piece of memory which ends up being emulated and handed
> to qemu.  The ioreq protocol doesn't have a way of signalling an operand
> width greater than 64 bits.

I'd like to emphasize the "and" in the first sentence.  You might be 
able to trigger a Xen emulation in any number of ways (disabling HAP and 
then doing an SSE instruction on an in-use PT might do it).  But Xen 
allegedly already does the actual emulation correctly -- as Andy said, 
it's only the path to qemu that wasn't working before.

  -George