From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Save bits by merging Mmx/Sse/Avx bits
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:10:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545B8149.2050808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415265301-16746-1-git-send-email-namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
On 06/11/2014 10:15, Nadav Amit wrote:
> As we run out of bits in the KVM emulator instruction flags, we can merge
> together the Mmx/Sse/Avx bits. These bits are mutual exclusive (i.e., each
> instruction is either MMX, SSE, AVX, or none), so we can save one bit in the
> flags by merging them.
Do we need the Avx bit at all? Currently it is a dup of Unaligned, and
I think we can just reuse Unaligned. If we see VEX, we just do "ctxt->d
|= Unaligned".
AVX instructions are just tweaks of the operand length and the alignment
restrictions of SSE instructions, there is nothing really special about
them.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 9:15 [PATCH] KVM: x86: Save bits by merging Mmx/Sse/Avx bits Nadav Amit
2014-11-06 14:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-11-06 18:52 ` Nadav Amit
2014-11-06 21:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-07 17:37 ` Radim Krčmář
2014-11-07 17:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-07 17:49 ` Radim Krčmář
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