From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:28:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Optimize entry path
X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/common/20141203.182822~4529^2~11^2~10
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c2d0be7efb0b92b5e4f89ea4363f3cdc11e2459;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-arm64.git

KVM: PPC: Book3S: PR: Optimize entry path

By shuffling a few instructions around we can execute more memory
loads in parallel, giving us a small performance boost.

With this patch and a simple priviledged SPR access loop guest, I get
a speed bump from 2013052 to 2035607 exits per second.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S
index 0676ae2..6bae0a9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S
@@ -128,24 +128,25 @@ no_dcbz32_on:
 	/* First clear RI in our current MSR value */
 	li	r0, MSR_RI
 	andc	r6, r6, r0
-	MTMSR_EERI(r6)
-	mtsrr0	r9
-	mtsrr1	r4
 
 	PPC_LL	r0, SVCPU_R0(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r1, SVCPU_R1(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r2, SVCPU_R2(r3)
-	PPC_LL	r4, SVCPU_R4(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r5, SVCPU_R5(r3)
-	PPC_LL	r6, SVCPU_R6(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r7, SVCPU_R7(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r8, SVCPU_R8(r3)
-	PPC_LL	r9, SVCPU_R9(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r10, SVCPU_R10(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r11, SVCPU_R11(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r12, SVCPU_R12(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r13, SVCPU_R13(r3)
 
+	MTMSR_EERI(r6)
+	mtsrr0	r9
+	mtsrr1	r4
+
+	PPC_LL	r4, SVCPU_R4(r3)
+	PPC_LL	r6, SVCPU_R6(r3)
+	PPC_LL	r9, SVCPU_R9(r3)
 	PPC_LL	r3, (SVCPU_R3)(r3)
 
 	RFI