[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] target-arm: Use Neon for zero checking

[<vijayak@cavium.com>]

From: Vijay <vijayak@cavium.com>

Use Neon instructions to perform zero checking of
buffer. This is helps in reducing total migration time.

Use case: Idle VM live migration with 4 VCPUS and 8GB ram
running CentOS 7.

Without Neon, the Total migration time is 3.5 Sec

Migration status: completed
total time: 3560 milliseconds
downtime: 33 milliseconds
setup: 5 milliseconds
transferred ram: 297907 kbytes
throughput: 685.76 mbps
remaining ram: 0 kbytes
total ram: 8519872 kbytes
duplicate: 2062760 pages
skipped: 0 pages
normal: 69808 pages
normal bytes: 279232 kbytes
dirty sync count: 3

With Neon, the total migration time is 2.9 Sec

Migration status: completed
total time: 2960 milliseconds
downtime: 65 milliseconds
setup: 4 milliseconds
transferred ram: 299869 kbytes
throughput: 830.19 mbps
remaining ram: 0 kbytes
total ram: 8519872 kbytes
duplicate: 2064313 pages
skipped: 0 pages
normal: 70294 pages
normal bytes: 281176 kbytes
dirty sync count: 3

Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <vijayak@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh <ksuresh@cavium.com>
---
 util/cutils.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index 5830a68..4779403 100644
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ int qemu_fdatasync(int fd)
 #define SPLAT(p)       _mm_set1_epi8(*(p))
 #define ALL_EQ(v1, v2) (_mm_movemask_epi8(_mm_cmpeq_epi8(v1, v2)) == 0xFFFF)
 #define VEC_OR(v1, v2) (_mm_or_si128(v1, v2))
+#elif __aarch64__
+#include "arm_neon.h"
+#define VECTYPE        uint64x2_t
+#define ALL_EQ(v1, v2) \
+        ((vgetq_lane_u64(v1, 0) == vgetq_lane_u64(v2, 0)) && \
+         (vgetq_lane_u64(v1, 1) == vgetq_lane_u64(v2, 1)))
+#define VEC_OR(v1, v2) ((v1) | (v2))
 #else
 #define VECTYPE        unsigned long
 #define SPLAT(p)       (*(p) * (~0UL / 255))
-- 
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