Re: RFC: Petition Intel/AMD to add POPF_IF insn

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/08/2016 14:18, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> -     2,588,839,023      branches                  #  977.555
> M/sec                    ( +-  0.02% )
> +     2,599,319,615      branches                  # 1046.786
> M/sec                    ( +-  0.04% )
> -         3,620,273      branch-misses             #    0.14% of all
> branches          ( +-  0.67% )
> +         3,577,771      branch-misses             #    0.14% of all
> branches          ( +-  0.69% )
> -       2.648799072 seconds time
> elapsed                                          ( +-  0.24% )
> +       2.487452268 seconds time
> elapsed                                          ( +-  0.31% )
> 
> Good, we run more insns/cycle, as expected. However, a bit more branches.

Can you see where the missed branches are?  Assuming branch misses are
the case where IF=0, perhaps there are a few places that can be changed
to spin_lock/unlock_irq or local_irq_disable/enable.

Paolo