Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] tcg-i386: Use segment registers to implement GUEST_BASE.

[Richard Henderson]

On 06/03/2010 11:35 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 04.06.2010, at 02:35, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
>> For 32-bit, using a segment override is smaller than the 4-byte 
>> immediate offset.  For 64-bit, segments can hold the entire 64-bit 
>> offset whereas the 4-byte immediate cannot.
> 
> Very nice idea indeed :). Have you found it to be faster? IIRC
> segment accesses are slower when seg_offs != 0. But then again the
> code is smaller, so it might weigh it up.

I've not yet tried to do any proper benchmarking.

I had thought that the segment access was slower only when limit != 4G,
i.e. when the segment boundaries need to be checked.  And that 64-bit
segments don't have boundaries, so the slowdown does not apply there either.

I'll put it on my queue for the weekend.


r~