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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags
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To: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com>, Dennis Luehring <dl.soluz@gmx.net>
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On 08/24/2015 11:44 PM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> This is very surprising: the patch should have no effect on a sun4u machine.

Er, no, it should.  The primary vector by which I expect improvement is via not 
encoding dmmu.mmu_primary_context into the TB flags.  I.e. ASI_DMMU, which 
sun4u certainly uses.

The fact that the patch _also_ fixes a sun4v problem is secondary.


r~