Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/8] target/ppc: Optimize emulation of some Altivec instructions

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 04:22:46PM +0200, Stefan Brankovic wrote:
> Optimize emulation of ten Altivec instructions: lvsl, lvsr, vsl, vsr, vpkpx,
> vgbbd, vclzb, vclzh, vclzw and vclzd.
> 
> This series buils up on and complements recent work of Thomas Murta, Mark
> Cave-Ayland and Richard Henderson in the same area. It is based on devising TCG
> translation implementation for selected instructions rather than using helpers.
> The selected instructions are most of the time idiosyncratic to ppc platform,
> so relatively complex TCG translation (without direct mapping to host
> instruction that is not possible in these cases) seems to be the best option,
> and that approach is presented in this series. The performance improvements
> are significant in all cases.

I was waiting for acks from rth on the remainder of this series, but
it seems to have been forgotten.  Can you rebase and resend the
remaining patches for inclusion in ppc-for-4.2.

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