Re: [PATCH 0/4] tcg: Optimize loads and stores to env

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

Ping.

r~

On 8/30/23 22:57, Richard Henderson wrote:
> This is aimed at improving gvec generated code, which involves large
> numbers of loads and stores to the env slots of the guest cpu vector
> registers.  The final patch helps eliminate redundant zero-extensions
> that can appear with e.g. avx2 and sve.
> 
>  From the small amount of timing that I have done, there is no change.
> But of course as we all know, x86 is very good with redundant memory.
> And frankly, I haven't found a good test case for measuring.
> What I need is an algorithm with lots of integer vector code that can
> be expanded with gvec.  Most of what I've found is either fp (out of
> line) or too simple (small translation blocks with little scope for
> optimization).
> 
> That said, it appears to be simple enough, and does eliminate some
> redundant operations, even in places that I didn't expect.
> 
> 
> r~
> 
> 
> Richard Henderson (4):
>    tcg: Don't free vector results
>    tcg/optimize: Pipe OptContext into reset_ts
>    tcg: Optimize env memory operations
>    tcg: Eliminate duplicate env store operations
> 
>   tcg/optimize.c    | 226 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   tcg/tcg-op-gvec.c |  39 ++------
>   2 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>