From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Keir(Xen.org)" <keir@xen.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/16] x86/hvm: limit reps to avoid the need to handle retry
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:19:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559E9F10020000780008EE13@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9AAE0902D5BC7E449B7C8E4E778ABCD02F4B59F4@AMSPEX01CL02.citrite.net>
>>> On 09.07.15 at 16:00, <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com> wrote:
> So, the only significant difference I can see is that using a signed value
> causes an extra cltq instruction to be used. Or maybe I need some specific
> level of optimization for there to be a big difference?
No, this is the difference I'm trying to point out (and if the index
register wasn't %rax, it would be a movslq or whatever its AT&T
name is).
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 16:25 [PATCH v6 00/16] x86/hvm: I/O emulation cleanup and fix Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 01/16] x86/hvm: make sure emulation is retried if domain is shutting down Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 02/16] x86/hvm: remove multiple open coded 'chunking' loops Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 17:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-08 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-08 15:57 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-08 16:18 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-08 16:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-09 6:53 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 8:15 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 9:19 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 03/16] x86/hvm: change hvm_mmio_read_t and hvm_mmio_write_t length argument Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 04/16] x86/hvm: restrict port numbers to uint16_t and sizes to unsigned int Paul Durrant
2015-07-08 15:57 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-08 15:59 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 05/16] x86/hvm: unify internal portio and mmio intercepts Paul Durrant
2015-07-08 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-08 16:28 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 06/16] x86/hvm: add length to mmio check op Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 07/16] x86/hvm: unify dpci portio intercept with standard portio intercept Paul Durrant
2015-07-08 16:29 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 08/16] x86/hvm: unify stdvga mmio intercept with standard mmio intercept Paul Durrant
2015-07-08 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 9:40 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 8:53 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 9:00 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 9:21 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 9:17 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 09/16] x86/hvm: limit reps to avoid the need to handle retry Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 17:18 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-07-09 10:05 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 11:11 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 12:04 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 12:50 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 13:38 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 13:42 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 14:00 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 14:19 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 10/16] x86/hvm: only call hvm_io_assist() from hvm_wait_for_io() Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 11/16] x86/hvm: split I/O completion handling from state model Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 10:09 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 12/16] x86/hvm: remove HVMIO_dispatched I/O state Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 10:13 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 13/16] x86/hvm: remove hvm_io_state enumeration Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 14/16] x86/hvm: use ioreq_t to track in-flight state Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 15/16] x86/hvm: always re-emulate I/O from a buffer Paul Durrant
2015-07-03 16:25 ` [PATCH v6 16/16] x86/hvm: track large memory mapped accesses by buffer offset Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 10:33 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 10:36 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 10:34 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-08 15:44 ` [PATCH v6 00/16] x86/hvm: I/O emulation cleanup and fix Jan Beulich
2015-07-09 11:31 ` Paul Durrant
2015-07-09 11:43 ` David Vrabel
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