[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Ping: [PATCH 0/4] HVM: produce better binary code
On 04/09/13 11:06, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 23.08.13 at 15:58, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > While I got two reviews meanwhile for this series (thanks Andrew > and Tim!), ack-s from the maintainers are still missing: > >> 1: VMX: streamline entry.S code >> 2: VMX: move various uses of UD2 out of fast paths >> 3: VMX: use proper instruction mnemonics if assembler supports them > Jun, Eddie? (Yes, there had been a couple of revisions to patches > 2 and 3, but even their sending was now more than a week ago.) > >> 4: SVM: streamline entry.S code > Suravee, Boris, Jacob? > > I'm going to wait a for perhaps another day or two, and will assume > silent agreement if I don't hear otherwise. I'll similarly assume silent > agreement to the discussed follow-up patches (dropping memory > barriers in a few places as well as converting __vmread() along the > lines of __vmread_safe()) once done, submitted, and reviewed. > > Jan > One thing I have noticed from subsequent reading of processor manuals is that reading from control registers are not actually serialising. It would be useful to get some comments about the in-processor optimisation for runs of pushes/pops, to determine whether it is a good idea interrupting the run. Having said that, the changes of any difference being measurable is slim. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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