Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: add paging gcc optimization

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 04:45:53 EST


On 03/07/2012 10:02 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
>
> Since most guests will have paging enabled for memory management, add likely() and unlikely()
> optimizations around is_paging() checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 6 +++---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++----
> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 4cb1642..84f1e95 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -3320,7 +3320,7 @@ static int init_kvm_tdp_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> context->get_pdptr = kvm_pdptr_read;
> context->inject_page_fault = kvm_inject_page_fault;
>
> - if (!is_paging(vcpu)) {
> + if (unlikely(!is_paging(vcpu))) {
>

Just change is_paging itself():

static inline int is_paging(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- return kvm_read_cr0_bits(vcpu, X86_CR0_PG);
+ return likely(kvm_read_cr0_bits(vcpu, X86_CR0_PG));
}

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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