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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64: KVM: remove fpsimd save/restore from the world switch
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:08:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5527A126.6080202@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8J-kDHjkg9uFbHHAEu=zSSv+CB1Vmy1JBh==SmeiWL1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/04/15 11:01, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 10 April 2015 at 10:11, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
>> I did some experimentations on arm64 a long while ago (see the
>> kvm-arm64/lazy-fp branch in my tree), and it wasn't that great,
>> apparently because aarch64 userspace tends to be much more FP happy than
>> aarch32, but I'm not completely sure about it.
> 
> Was that with the buggy version of the toolchain that had
> incorrect costs and so was much more inclined to spill
> integer values into the FPU than it should have been?
> It might be worth retesting with a freshly compiled
> userspace some day...

It definitely was with a very old toolchain and an even older userspace.
I'll respin the branch when I get some thime.

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-10 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-09 16:53 [RFC PATCH] arm64: KVM: remove fpsimd save/restore from the world switch Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10  8:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-10  9:11   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10  9:13     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-10  9:40       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-10 10:01     ` Peter Maydell
2015-04-10 10:08       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2015-04-10 10:20       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-04-10  9:12 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-04-10  9:36   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-13 12:57 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-04-13 14:12   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-04-13 14:26     ` Christoffer Dall

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