From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg: Remove stack protection from helper functions
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:52:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E80D7E9.4050203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E80D5EF.4090705@twiddle.net>
On 09/26/2011 10:43 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 10:41 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Native tcg ops for common vector instructions would probably be quite a speedup.
>
> It's very possible to simply open-code many of the vector operations.
>
> I've done a port of qemu to the SPU (aka Cell) processor. This core
> has no scalar operations; all operations are on vectors. It turned
> out fairly well for the basic arithmetic. I only have to fall back
> on helpers for the more esoteric operations.
>
> That said, all FP vector operations should of course continue to be
> done completely via helpers, since one would need helpers for the
> individual FP operations anyway.
Why do floating point ops need helpers? At least if all the edge cases
match? (i.e. NaNs and denormals)
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 7:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg: Remove stack protection from helper functions Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 8:01 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-09-26 8:15 ` Laurent Desnogues
2011-09-26 17:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-26 19:43 ` Richard Henderson
2011-09-26 19:52 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-26 19:53 ` Richard Henderson
2011-09-26 20:20 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-26 20:19 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-26 20:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-27 4:29 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-27 7:58 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-26 10:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 11:33 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-26 11:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 11:56 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-26 17:22 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-26 17:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 18:20 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-26 18:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 18:40 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-26 19:08 ` Peter Maydell
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