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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
signature is too narrow to contain.

  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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