Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: Don't make vcpu_is_preempted() a callee-save function

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, "Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Pan Xinhui" <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
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	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	"Chris Wright" <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
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	"Alok Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: Don't make vcpu_is_preempted() a callee-save function
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:31:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170213223130.GL6500__27066.3860756487$1487025168$gmane$org@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19008130-7b73-5c53-3cb5-a013e9e5552b@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:24:36PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

> >> movsql %edi, %rax;
> >> movq __per_cpu_offset(,%rax,8), %rax;
> >> cmpb $0, %[offset](%rax);
> >> setne %al;

> I have thought of that too. However, the goal is to eliminate memory
> read/write from/to stack. Eliminating a register sign-extend instruction
> won't help much in term of performance.

Problem here is that all instructions have dependencies, so if you can
get rid of the sign extend mov you kill a bunch of stall cycles (I would
expect).

But yes, peanuts vs the stack load/stores.

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