Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v3] [S390-KVM] Regsync: Utilize selective runtime reg sync for hot code paths

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 11/03/13 18:58, Jason J. Herne wrote:
> Make use of new kvm_s390_get_registers_partial() for kvm_handle_css_inst() and
> handle_hypercall() since they only need registers from the partial set and 
> they
> are called quite frequently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason J. Herne <address@hidden>
> ---
>  target-s390x/kvm.c |   11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-s390x/kvm.c b/target-s390x/kvm.c
> index 934757e..36861aa 100644
> --- a/target-s390x/kvm.c
> +++ b/target-s390x/kvm.c
> @@ -468,12 +468,16 @@ static int kvm_handle_css_inst(S390CPU *cpu, struct 
> kvm_run *run,
>      int r = 0;
>      int no_cc = 0;
>      CPUS390XState *env = &cpu->env;
> +    CPUState *cs = ENV_GET_CPU(env);
> 
>      if (ipa0 != 0xb2) {
>          /* Not handled for now. */
>          return -1;
>      }
> -    cpu_synchronize_state(env);
> +
> +    kvm_s390_get_registers_partial(cs);
> +    cs->kvm_vcpu_dirty = true;
> +
>      switch (ipa1) {
>      case PRIV_XSCH:
>          r = ioinst_handle_xsch(env, env->regs[1]);


Looks good, but can you also do the same for TSCH?
This is also related to the main I/O path.


> @@ -604,7 +608,10 @@ static int handle_priv(S390CPU *cpu, struct kvm_run *run,
> 
>  static int handle_hypercall(CPUS390XState *env, struct kvm_run *run)
>  {
> -    cpu_synchronize_state(env);
> +    CPUState *cs = ENV_GET_CPU(env);
> +
> +    kvm_s390_get_registers_partial(cs);
> +    cs->kvm_vcpu_dirty = true;
>      env->regs[2] = s390_virtio_hypercall(env);
> 
>      return 0;
>